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Losing Earth : a recent history
Title
Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
ISBN
9780374191337
0374191336
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
Physical Description
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Summary
"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"-- Publisher marketing.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206)
Contents
Introduction : the reckoning
Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979
Mirror worlds : spring 1979
Between clambake and chaos : July 1979
Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980
A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980
Tiger on the road : October 1980
A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981
Heroes and villains : March 1982
The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982
Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984
The world of action : 1985
The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986
Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988
Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988
Signal weather : June 1988
Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989
Fragmented world : fall 1988
The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989
Natural processes : May 1989
The White House effect : spring-fall 1989
Skunks at the garden party : November 1989
Afterword : glass-bottomed boats.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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