The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s, yet
little has been done to halt it. The threat, if we fail, is nothing
less than catastrophe - the flooding of coastal communities, the
extinction of species and entry into a climate regime of which humans
have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know
and what we refuse to know, Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent
journey from the Arctic to Central America, interviewing researchers,
environmentalists and traditional Inuits whose lives have already been
dramatically altered by climate change.<
'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this
riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us' Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr. 'The most frightening book I've read this century ... Field Notes
from a Catastrophe holds a powerful message for us all and we would do
well to heed it' Times Literary Supplement 'A detailed and very
readable account of the problems many communities are faced with as
the puddles form in the Arctic ... and how we continue to cover our
eyes to the visible changes happening around us' Ecologist 'A superbly
crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards
destruction' Observer
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The world has known about global warming
since the late 1970s, yet little has been done to halt it. The
threat, if we fail, is nothing less than catastrophe - the flooding
of coastal communities, the extinction of species and entry into a
climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the
relationship between what we know and what we refuse to know,
Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to
Central America, interviewing researchers, environmentalists and
traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically
altered by climate change.<
