{"product_id":"six-minutes-to-winter-nuclear-war-and-how-to-avoid-it-1","title":"Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Terrifying and timely ... a book everyone should read and heed' \u003c\/b\u003e- George Monbiot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Urgent, gripping and sobering ... a hair-raising wake-up call' \u003c\/b\u003e- David Wallace-Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful and insightful. \u003c\/b\u003e- Charles Oppenheimer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours. A major missile exchange would mean months of near-total darkness, followed by a decade-long global nuclear winter that would destroy most life on Earth. Virtually everyone would starve in the resulting worldwide famine, and there would be no reliable refuge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are sleepwalking to Armageddon. There are no mass marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta. But the climate experience teaches us that ignoring a problem is no solution, and that a worldwide mobilisation can work. Six Minutes to Winter presents an unflinching view of the nuclear nightmare, but also describes how weapons can be taken off hair-trigger alert and ultimately abolished altogether. If human civilisation is to survive long term, we have no alternative.","brand":"Mark Lynas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47288016011500,"sku":"9781399410502","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781399410502.jpg?v=1770521809","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/six-minutes-to-winter-nuclear-war-and-how-to-avoid-it-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}