The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Record no. 297073)
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fixed length control field | 01564nam a22001457a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780241355213 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 304.2/8 WEL-U |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | David Wallace-Wells |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Allen Lane / Penguin Books |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 310p. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nature--Effect of human beings on. Global warming--Social aspects. Climatic changes--Social aspects. Global environmental change--Social aspects. Environmental degradation--Social aspects. |
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Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 08/05/2019 | 304.2/8 WEL-U | DCB3611 | 08/05/2019 | 08/05/2019 | Book |