Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change

Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781478025443,9781478020660,9781478027577,1478025441,1478020660,1478027576

Product detail:

• ISBN 10: 1478027576
• ISBN 13: 9781478027577
• Author: Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B.

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world’s poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious about mitigating climate change we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.

Table of contents:

1. Earth
2. The Lessons of Geologic Time
3. The 2021 United Nations Climate Report
4. Famine
5. Permafrost
6. Air
7. Hurricanes
8. Tornadoes
9. Heat
10. Bad Air
11. Fire
12. Wildfires
13. Urban Firestorms
14. Water
15. Sea Level Rise
16. Ocean Acidification
17. Marine Heat Waves
18. Tsunamis
19. Floods
20. Drought
21. Water Supply
22. Space
23. Climate Refugees
24. Climate Havens
25. Green Cities
26. Health
27. Nature on the Move
28. The Biosphere
29. The Heart of the Matter
30. New Ideas
31. New Developments
32. Bug-Out Bags: “Preparedness Perfects Response”
33. To Learn More: Resources in Print and on Screen

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