The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Record no. 297073)

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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.
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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
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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