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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming

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2023

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Author:	Wallace-Wells, David.
Title:	The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / David Wallace-Wells.
Call Number:	Y 304.2 Wallace 2023
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	xi, 157 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 12 and up. Delacorte Press.
Subjects:	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Global warming -- Social aspects. Climatic changes -- Social aspects. Global environmental change -- Social aspects. Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.
Notes:	Includes index. "Adapted for young adults." "This work is based on The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, originally published in hardcover by Tim Duggan Books, New York, in 2019 and in paperback by Tim Duggan Books, in slightly different form, in 2020."--Title page verso.
Contents:	I. Cascades -- II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems" -- III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world -- IV. The anthropic principle.
ISBN:	9780593483572 059348357X 9780593483558 0593483553
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