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In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A primer in understanding the climate crisis informed by interviews with the women, non-binary, and gender-expansive climate leaders and community members who have been fighting for the health, wellbeing, and liberation of their communities for decades"--
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming-how the future will look to those living through it as well as a direct overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still time. Adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller"--
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"[This book] is a ... "heretical" scientific and rational discussion of the issue that affects every person on earth. Fourteen climate scientists, energy engineers, and environmental economists, along with a theologian, offer a rigorous discussion of: the real causes of "global warming"; how sensitive the climate actually is to greenhouse gases; how the sun, oceans, clouds, and rain play a key role in climate change; the benefits of human-generated...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like....
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Thinking about climate change, many of us picture the catastrophic effects that the science has shown are sure to come if we don't act, and we often hear that global temperatures are rising at increasing and alarming rates. While those trends of rising temperatures will certainly bring about catastrophe if allowed to continue, they are also already having devastating effects right now. This book will focus on the economic implications of heat events...
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Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Invited to speak at gatherings with scientists and policymakers, with archbishops, Indigenous activists and students, Dougald Hine, storyteller and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he realized he had nothing left to say. Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is...
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