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The Global Warming Reader

A Century of Writing About Climate Change

A Century of Writing About Climate Change

By Bill McKibben

By Bill McKibben

By Bill McKibben

By Bill McKibben

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    About The Global Warming Reader

    Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, our most widely respected environmental writer

    With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide–witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West–global warming has become increasingly difficult to deny.

    What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Reader provides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert’s groundbreaking essay “The Darkening Sea,” Michael Crichton’s skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot’s biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet’s resources, NASA scientist James Hansen’s testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, and many others. The Global Warming Reader is a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.

    About The Global Warming Reader

    Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, our most widely respected environmental writer

    With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide–witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West–global warming has become increasingly difficult to deny.

    What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Reader provides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert’s groundbreaking essay “The Darkening Sea,” Michael Crichton’s skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot’s biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet’s resources, NASA scientist James Hansen’s testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, and many others. The Global Warming Reader is a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.

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    About Bill McKibben

    Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of… More about Bill McKibben

    About Bill McKibben

    Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of… More about Bill McKibben

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    Category: Science | Domestic Politics

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2012 | 432 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780143121893

    Category: Science | Domestic Politics

    Ebook | $15.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9781101577219

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