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Main Title The uninhabitable earth : life after warming /
Author Wallace-Wells, David,
Publisher Tim Duggan Books,
Year Published 2019
OCLC Number 1082297389
ISBN 9780525576709; 0525576703
Subjects Nature--Effect of human beings on ; Global warming--Social aspects ; Climatic changes--Social aspects ; Global environmental change--Social aspects ; Environmental degradation--Social aspects ; Human ecology--Forecasting ; NATURE--Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Human influence on nature ; Climate chang--Social aspects
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EIAM  GF75.W36 2019 c. 1 Region 2 Library/New York,NY 09/16/2019
EIAM  GF75.W36 2019 c. 2 Region 2 Library/New York,NY 09/16/2019
Edition First edition.
Collation 310 pages ; 25 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-299) and index.
Contents Notes "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, '500-year' storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await -- food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation"--
Place Published New York
PUB Date Free Form 2019
BIB Level m
Medium unmediated
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Cataloging Source RDA
LCCN 2018051268
Merged OCLC records 1049812680; 1084480796; 1086511974; 1086567319; 1091142845; 1158607684; 1201003935; 1201843927; 1202007300; 1202013559
OCLC Time Stamp 20190913071723
Language eng
Origin OCLC
Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 04830cam 2200697 i 45010