Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?
ISBN-10
1408833360
ISBN-13
9781408833360
Series
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Category
Science
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2012-04-12
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Elizabeth Kolbert

Description

_________________ 'A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' - Observer 'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us' - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 'The most frightening book I've read this century' - Times Literary Supplement _________________ Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. In the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding of it grows. Now Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career, with new chapters on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral. Field Notes from a Catastrophe remains as necessary as ever, and a must-read for our moment.

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