Join us each month to discuss issues in politics and society, and explore how powerful forces are exploiting our world and dystopian imaginings are becoming present-day realities.
October’s book is A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by public policy advisor Seth Klein. Copies of the book are available in print, eBook & eAudiobook format. Book club attendees are encouraged to read the book in advance of the meeting.
"In A Good War, Seth Klein explores how we can align our politics and economy with what the science says we must do to address the climate crisis. But Klein brings an original and uniquely hopeful take to this challenge. The book is structured around lessons from the Second World War – the last time Canada faced an existential threat. Others have said we need a “wartime approach” to climate change, but this is the first book to delve into what that could actually look like. Canada’s wartime experience, Klein contends, provides an inspirational reminder that we have done this before . We have mobilized in common cause across class, race and gender, and entirely retooled our economy in the space of a few short years."
Drop in. No registration required.
For: Adults (18+). Programme type: Book Clubs. Location in branch: Lower Level, Room B1. Registration is not required. Contact: Humanities and Social Sciences Department, 416-393-7175.
Monday, October 19
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library · 789 Yonge Street
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