The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change /
Remnick, David
The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder ; with an afterword by Elizabeth Kolbert. - xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm
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Foreword / Reflections : the end of nature / The climate of man ; The darkening sea / Writers in the storm / The end of ice / The new harpoon / The sixth extinction? / The ice retreat / The inferno / The end of the end of the world / The emergency / The day the Great Plains burned / Life on a shrinking planet / Green Manhattan / Big foot / The great oasis / The climate fixers / Adaptation / Power brokers / Value meal / Trailblazers / Afterword / by David Remnick -- by Bill McKibben -- by Elizabeth Kolbert -- by Kathryn Schulz -- by Dexter Filkins -- by Tom Kizzia -- by Elizabeth Kolbert -- by Fen Montaigne -- by Christine Kenneally -- by Jonathan Franzen -- by Ben Taub -- by Ian Frazier -- by Bill McKibben -- by David Owen -- by Michael Specter -- by Burkhard Bilger -- by Michael Specter -- by Eric Klineberg -- by Bill McKibben -- by Tad Friend -- by Nicola Twilley -- by Elizabeth Kolbert.
"A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past, present, and future - taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay 'The End of Nature,' the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age"--Publisher's description.
000844661X 9780008446666 (ePub ebook) 0008446652 9780008446611 9780008446659
Climatic changes
Human beings--Effect of climate on
Climatic changes
Human beings--Effect of climate on
Essays.
Essays.
GF71 / .R466 2021
363.73874
The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder ; with an afterword by Elizabeth Kolbert. - xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm
P.B
Foreword / Reflections : the end of nature / The climate of man ; The darkening sea / Writers in the storm / The end of ice / The new harpoon / The sixth extinction? / The ice retreat / The inferno / The end of the end of the world / The emergency / The day the Great Plains burned / Life on a shrinking planet / Green Manhattan / Big foot / The great oasis / The climate fixers / Adaptation / Power brokers / Value meal / Trailblazers / Afterword / by David Remnick -- by Bill McKibben -- by Elizabeth Kolbert -- by Kathryn Schulz -- by Dexter Filkins -- by Tom Kizzia -- by Elizabeth Kolbert -- by Fen Montaigne -- by Christine Kenneally -- by Jonathan Franzen -- by Ben Taub -- by Ian Frazier -- by Bill McKibben -- by David Owen -- by Michael Specter -- by Burkhard Bilger -- by Michael Specter -- by Eric Klineberg -- by Bill McKibben -- by Tad Friend -- by Nicola Twilley -- by Elizabeth Kolbert.
"A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past, present, and future - taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay 'The End of Nature,' the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age"--Publisher's description.
000844661X 9780008446666 (ePub ebook) 0008446652 9780008446611 9780008446659
Climatic changes
Human beings--Effect of climate on
Climatic changes
Human beings--Effect of climate on
Essays.
Essays.
GF71 / .R466 2021
363.73874