The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change

Remnick, David, (editor.). Finder, Henry, (editor.). Kolbert, Elizabeth, (writer of afterword.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780063017542
ISBN: 0063017547
ISBN: 9780063017559
ISBN: 0063017555
ISBN: 9780063029217
ISBN: 0063029219
Physical Description: print
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.