Losing Earth : a recent history /
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change, including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
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New York :
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the reckoning
- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979
- Mirror worlds : spring 1979
- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979
- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980
- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980
- Tiger on the road : October 1980
- A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981
- Heroes and villains : March 1982
- The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982
- Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984
- The world of action : 1985
- The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986
- Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988
- Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988
- Signal weather : June 1988
- Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989
- Fragmented world : fall 1988
- The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989
- Natural processes : May 1989
- The White House effect : spring-fall 1989
- Skunks at the garden party : November 1989
- Afterword : glass-bottomed boats.