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Windfall, February 2014
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The Booming Business of Global Warming
Penguin Press
February 2014
On Sale: January 23, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 1594204012
EAN: 9781594204012
Kindle: B00DMCV4A8
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Non-Fiction
Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into
three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk
travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial
people who see a potential windfall in each of these
forces.
The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral
rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the
man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for
private firefighters working for insurance companies as well
as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who
control local farmland. The deluge—rising seas,
surging rivers, and superstorms—has been our most distant
concern, but for Dutch architects designing floating cities
and American scientists patenting hurricane defenses, the
race is on.
By letting climate change continue
unchecked, we are choosing to adapt to a warming world.
Containing the resulting surge will benefit some, but much
of the planet will suffer. McKenzie Funk has investigated
both sides, and what he has found will shock us all.
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