The literary offensive of climate skeptics to sow doubt


Published on October 12, 2024 at 7:10 p.m. / Modified on October 12, 2024 at 7:10 p.m.

  • Best-selling authors challenge the scientific consensus in climate science.

  • On the Fnac Suisse and Amazon websites, climate-denialist books even appear in the top search results with the keyword “climate”.

  • On the side of booksellers and sales platforms, we defend “a society of total freedom of expression”.

Readers who are interested in the climate issue may have read The Ministry of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, you The Great Book of Climate by activist Greta Thunberg. In French-speaking bookstores or on platforms, numerous books are devoted to this theme, including notorious climate skeptic essays. Our colleagues from the newspaper The Cross noted this in , and this is unsurprisingly also the case in French-speaking Switzerland. Some even appear in the first online search results.

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