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The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder ; [with an afterword by Elizabeth Kolbert].
"A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change-including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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. This collection takes features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including 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. In its range, depth, and passion, it promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age. -- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063017542
- ISBN: 0063017547
- ISBN: 9780063017559
- ISBN: 0063017555
- Physical Description: xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by David Remnick -- Reflections : the end of nature / by Bill McKibben -- The climate of man ; The darkening sea / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Writers in the storm / by Kathryn Schulz -- The end of ice / by Dexter Filkins -- The new harpoon / by Tom Kizzia -- The sixth extinction? / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The ice retreat / by Fen Montaigne -- The inferno / by Christine Kenneally -- The end of the end of the world / by Jonathan Franzen -- The emergency / by Ben Taub -- The day the Great Plains burned / by Ian Frazier -- Life on a shrinking planet / by Bill McKibben -- Green Manhattan / by David Owen -- Big foot / by Michael Specter -- The great oasis / by Burkhard Bilger -- The climate fixers / by Michael Specter -- Adaptation / by Eric Klineberg -- Power brokers / by Bill McKibben -- Value meal / by Tad Friend -- Trailblazers / by Nicola Twilley -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Kolbert. |
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| Subject: | Climatic changes. Human beings > Effect of climate on. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 363.738 FRAGI (Text) | TRL29912 | Entertaining Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | 363.73874 FRA (Text) | 33923006276418 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | 363.73874 FRA (Text) | 35136000602236 | Adult Non Fic | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salmo Public Library | 363.738 FRA (Text) | 35163000194170 | Adult Non Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Smithers Public Library | ANF 363.73874 FRA (Text) | 35101011049306 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
