Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Elizabeth Kolbert is The New Yorker's staff writer. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is her first book. Her husband and children live in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Kolbert, a New Yorker writer known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, takes on the contentious subject of global warming. Since the late 1970s, Americans have been warned that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and permanently alter our climate. With little done since then to change this perilous path, now is the time to save our future. By the end of the century, the world will most likely be hotter than it has been in the last two million years, with the sweeping consequences determining the future of life on Earth for future generations.

Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle in writing that is both clear and objective. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and studies, draws terrifying parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and tells the personal stories of those most affected: those who live near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are watching their worlds disappear. Field Notes from a Catastrophe, based on a groundbreaking three-part series for the New Yorker, brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done and how we can save our planet.

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Notes-Catastrophe-Nature-Climate/dp/1620409887/

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