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Losing Earth : a recent history
- Title
- Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
- Author
- Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
- Publication
- New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-3353 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 206 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206)
- Contents
- Introduction : the reckoning -- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979 -- Mirror worlds : spring 1979 -- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 -- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 -- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 -- Tiger on the road : October 1980 -- A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981 -- Heroes and villains : March 1982 -- The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982 -- Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984 -- The world of action : 1985 -- The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986 -- Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988 -- Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988 -- Signal weather : June 1988 -- Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989 -- Fragmented world : fall 1988 -- The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989 -- Natural processes : May 1989 -- The White House effect : spring-fall 1989 -- Skunks at the garden party : November 1989 -- Afterword : glass-bottomed boats.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3353
- ISBN
- 9780374191337
- 0374191336
- LCCN
- 2018056269
- OCLC
- 1083699228
- Author
- Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author.
- Title
- Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
- Publisher
- New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206)
- Local Note
- PUB. ALSO IN UK.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3353