The uninhabitable earth: a story of the future (Record no. 397443)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241355213
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Classification number 363.73874
Item number W2U6
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Personal name Wallace-Wells, David
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Title The uninhabitable earth: a story of the future
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Allen Lane
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 310 p.
Other physical details Includes index
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note I. Cascades <br/>II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Disasters no longer natural ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems"<br/>III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world<br/>IV. The anthropic principle.
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Summary, etc. It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, “500-year” storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.<br/><br/>In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await—food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation.<br/><br/>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/9780525576709/
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Environment and ecology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Global environmental change - Social aspects
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental degradation - Social aspects
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Climatic changes - Political aspects
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Nature - Effect of human beings on
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ahmedabad Ahmedabad General Stacks 02/07/2019 71 495.99 1 2 363.73874 W2U6 199651 01/07/2020 07/07/2019 07/07/2019 799.00 02/07/2019 Book

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