Friday, Jul 17 2020 8:30AM to 11:00AM
Will Leger
TechWorks Gaston
52A Ervin St
Belmont, NC 28012
Monthly BIG Ideas Exchange: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Friday, July 17, 2020
Location: TechWorks Gaston
52A Ervin St, Belmont, NC 28012
Parking: Free Parking all around the building
8:30 am to 9:00 am Continental breakfast and networking
9:00 am to 11:00 am Book Discussion
Free to Members and Guests of BIG: RSVP to terry@bigcouncil.com or register below.
Book: "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells, Feb 19, 2019
https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703
Overview:
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress.
The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
Book discussion facilitated by Will Leger.
As a reminder, you don't have to read the book to attend! Most do not, and we always have a very engaging discussion!
During this roundtable we'll:
· share our own experiences in this area in our businesses
· share best practices from our own personal experience or from industry thought leaders
· share ideas on how to improve the area within our businesses to fuel growth
Note: We are looking for people to facilitate a book discussion for 2020, so please don’t hesitate to contact me if there is a book that you’re passionate about and would like to share with the group. The meetings take place the second Friday of every month. Thanks!
BIG Council will contact you to confirm your registration and to process any non-member fee payment.