Betting the farm on a drought
Subtitle: stories from the front lines of climate change
By: Seamus McGraw
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780292756618
Subjects: Climatic changes; Popular works
Description: Shows how farmers, ranchers, and fisherman--many of whom are not ideologically inclined to believe in man-made climate change--are affected by extreme weather, and the risks they are taking to deal with it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sundance; title: Comfortable in our ignorance; title: Kindergarten in a fallout shelter; title: Preaching to the choir; title: Running from a grizzly in your slippers; title: The other white meat; title: Flying by wire; title: Notes from the ivory clock tower; title: "I never met a liberal before"; title: The year the creeks stopped freezing; title: "It's what I do"; title: Penguins tumbling off an ice sheet.