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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]
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.