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Subtitle: living through the next fifty years on earth
By: Mark Hertsgaard
Edition: Center Point large print ed.
Publisher: Center Point Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thorndike, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9781611730128
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global environmental change; Effect of climate on; Human beings; Large type books; Global warming
Description: A journalist who has studied global warming for two decades makes recommendations for navigating a world dangerously impacted by climate change, covering such topics as rising temperatures, dwindling water supplies, and cataclysmic storms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Living through the storm; title: Three feet of water; title: My daughter's Earth; title: Ask the climate question; title: The two-hundred-year plan; title: Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?; title: In vino veritas: the business of climate adaptation; title: How willl we feed ourselves?; title: While the rich avert their eyes; title: "This was a crime"; title: Epilogue: Chiara in the year 2020.