Description
| Product ID: | 9780008446611 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Fragile Earth |
| Subtitle: | Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change |
| Authors: | Author: David Remnick, Henry Finder |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Reportage & collected journalism, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols, Conservation of the environment, Climate change, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmental science, engineering and technology, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental policy & protocols, Conservation of the environment, Climate change, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmental science, engineering & technology, The Earth: natural history general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergencyIn 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. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-04 |
