I veckan meddelade förlagsjätten Penguin att en ny bokserie är på gång i slutet av sommaren.
Green Ideas, som projektet kallas, kommer bestå av 20 böcker som på ett eller annat sätt tar sig an miljö- och klimatfrågorna. Greta Thunberg, i dag 18 år, är enda svensken som finns med.
På Facebook skriver Penguin:
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement.
These twenty short books contain the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth. From art, literature, food and gardening, to technology, economics, politics and ethics, each one deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
Texterna har alltså getts ut tidigare, och vissa har även kortats ned för att passa bokseriens upplägg.
Enligt Penguin kommer lansering ske den 26 augusti.
Författare/böcker som ingår i serien:
- Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
- Naomi Klein, Hot Money
- Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological
- George Monbiot, This Can’t Be Happening
- Bill McKibben, An Idea Can Go Extinct
- Amitav Ghosh, Uncanny and Improbable Events
- Tim Flannery, A Warning from the Golden Toad
- Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
- Michael Pollan, Food Rules
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species
- Dai Qing, The Most Dammed Country in the World
- Wangari Maathai, The World We Once Lived In
- Jared Diamond, The Last Tree on Easter Island
- Wendell Berry, What I Stand for Is What I Stand On
- Edward O Wilson, Every Species is a Masterpiece
- James Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia
- Masanobu Fukuoka, The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah
- Arne Naess, There is No Point of No Return
- Rachel Carson, Man’s War Against Nature
- Aldo Leopold, Think Like a Mountain