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Man, Nature, And Climate Change
Bloomsbury
March 2006
On Sale: March 7, 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 1596911255
EAN: 9781596911253
Kindle: B003TWOK98
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Non-Fiction
An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a
book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring.
Known for her
insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New
Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the
controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been
warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of
carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar
ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little
done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the
moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the
world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two
million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change
will determine the future of life on earth for generations
to come.
In writing that is both clear and unbiased,
Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle.
She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and
environmentalists, explains the science and the studies,
draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations,
unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of
those who are being affected most--the people who make their
homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are
watching their worlds disappear. Growing out of a
groundbreaking three-part series for the New Yorker,
Field Notes from a Catastrophe brings the environment
into the consciousness of the American people and asks what,
if anything, can be done, and how we can save our planet.
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