num_pages: 560
description: A New York Time s New &amp; Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beasts 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate changeincluding writing from Bill McKibben Elizabeth Kolbert Ian Frazier Kathryn Schulz and more 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 humankinds 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 McKibbens 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 changeits past present and futuretaking 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 McKibbens 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 Prizewinning 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.
language: English
title: The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change
publisher: Ecco