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Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xv, 253 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a...
Author
Series
Global icons volume Book 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
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Description
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.
Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.
In this urgent audiobook, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist,
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
Author
Series
Climate novels volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
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From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a
65) Before the flood
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the effects of climate change worldwide and what steps can be taken to prevent further damage.
Publisher
Distributed by Filmwest Associates
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.)
Language
English
Description
A three part documentary on global warming. Episode one explores the underlying science of climate change. Episode two reveals the often surprising consequences of climate change through the stories of real people. Episode three introduces us to people and communities who are combatting global warming.
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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornadoes, and discover nature's awesome potential with this Eyewitness guide. See how earthquakes, floods and hurricanes affect what lies in their path, and what measures we can use to protect ourselves from Mother Nature. Follow the journey of some of the most catastrophic disasters, and witness the rescue operations that followed. Learn, too, about the equipment...
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Language
English
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We all sense it ― something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once ― and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought -- the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict,...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Skier and debut author Ayja Bounous explores threats to the winters and watershed in the face of climate change and the far-reaching impacts of a diminishing snowpack on the American West--not only from ecological and economic perspectives, but also in regard to emotional and psychological health, as she realizes how deeply her personal relationships are tied to the snow-covered mountains of Utah's Wasatch range"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 369 p. : ill., map, chart ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups -- Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity...
76) Tipping point
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 51
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hrs. 38 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tipping point: Our warming earth is most dramatically revealed in this modern day journey through the North West Passage. This is a revealing and worrying documentary that explains the effects of global climate change on the polar region and the alarming and rapid increase in the melting ice that might create an ice-free Arctic as soon as 2012 or 2013, by some recently revised predictions.
Life in plastic...: Plastic is the backbone of our society...
77) The terranauts
Author
Language
English
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Description
It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Their sealed, three-acre compound comprises five biomes — rainforest, savanna, desert, ocean, and marsh — and...
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across the world, from boardrooms and policy positions to local communities, from science to activism, women everywhere are using their voices to take leadership and call for action on climate change. Curated by two climate leaders, this book leads us away from the brink and toward the possibility of a life-giving future.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when...
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