Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Climate Change - is Time Running out?
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2012
240 pages
978-1-4088-3336-0 (ISBN)
Description
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'A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' - Observer
'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us' - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
'The most frightening book I've read this century' - Times Literary Supplement
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Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today.
In the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding of it grows. Now Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career, with new chapters on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral. Field Notes from a Catastrophe remains as necessary as ever, and a must-read for our moment.
'A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' - Observer
'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us' - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
'The most frightening book I've read this century' - Times Literary Supplement
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Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today.
In the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding of it grows. Now Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career, with new chapters on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral. Field Notes from a Catastrophe remains as necessary as ever, and a must-read for our moment.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3336-0 (9781408833360)
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Person
Elizabeth Kolbert was a reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer for the New Yorker covering politics. She and her husband, John Kleiner, have three sons. They live in Williamstown, MA.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I - Nature
- 1 Shishmaref, Alaska
- 2 A Warmer Sky
- 3 Under the Glacier
- 4 The Butterfly and the Toad
- Part II - Man
- 5 The Curse of Akkad
- 6 Floating Houses
- 7 Business as Usual
- 8 The Day After Kyoto
- 9 Burlington, Vermont
- 10 Man in the Anthropocene
- Part III - Time
- 11 Ten Years On
- 12 The Darkening Sea
- 13 Unconventional Crude
- 14 The Island in the Wind
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Selected Bibliography and Notes
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Also Available by Elizabeth Kolbert
- eCopyright
