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Calgary writer Chris Turner wins $25,000 guide prize for political writing on local weather change

Calgary journalist and writer Chris Turner has received this 12 months’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his guide about local weather change.

The award, introduced by the Author’s Belief of Canada, comes with a $25,000 prize. Turner’s guide, Methods to Be a Local weather Optimist: Blueprints for a Higher World was printed by Random Home Canada. Turner usually writes about local weather change and international power transition. His earlier books embrace The Patch: The Individuals Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands, The Leap: Methods to Survive and Thrive in The Sustainable Economic system and The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Want.

He additionally wrote 2004’s Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Period and Outlined a Era.

The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize was based 23 years in the past and named after the Windsor, Ont., Liberal MP.

In its quotation for the guide, jurors Terri E. Givens, Nik Nanos and Jacques Poitras wrote: “The local weather debate is inherently pessimistic, and whereas Chris Turner doesn’t fake that crafting coverage to gradual international warming is simple, he presents a compelling argument: gloom and doom just isn’t an efficient technique. Methods to Be a Local weather Optimist is a self-help information for the planet and a masterclass in brisk, vivid storytelling. Turner offers us a crisp, upbeat tour d’horizon of gee-whiz innovation coupled with a strongly argued case that we – politicians, voters, and residents – simply want the need to achieve for the options taking form earlier than our eyes.”