What We Have Instead: Poems by Gus Speth

Speth, Gus

ISBN 10: 1605714577 / ISBN 13: 9781605714578

Published by Gus Speth (edition ), 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What We Have Instead: Poems by Gus Speth
• Publisher: Gus Speth (edition )
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605714577
• ISBN 13: 9781605714578
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

After award-winning books on environment and scores of articles, this is Gus Speth's first book of poetry. In it there are stories about people and their journeys, scathing but sometimes humorous commentary on current events, several reflections on climate risks and environmental loss and where that leaves us, and many other poems--philosophical, funny, or something else.

About the Author

Gus Speth recently served as dean of Yale's school of environment and forestry and as professor of law at Vermont Law School. At the United Nations, he was the head of the UN's Development Program. Prior to that, he was co-founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he led on many environmental issues over a period of 17 years. During the Carter years, he served as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In jail in Washington DC with Bill McKibben and others on a climate protest, Speth said the following of his 3-day stay, I've held a lot of important positions in this town, but none seems as important as this one.