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Title:

The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder ; [with an afterword by Elizabeth Kolbert].

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Eccoan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Climatic changes.
Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Other Authors:

Remnick, David, editor.
Finder, Henry, editor.
Kolbert, Elizabeth, writer of afterword.

Other Titles:

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Contents:

Afterword / by Elizabeth Kolbert. Reflections : the end of nature / by Bill McKibben -- The climate of man ; The darkening sea / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Writers in the storm / by Kathryn Schulz -- The end of ice / by Dexter Filkins -- The new harpoon / by Tom Kizzia -- The sixth extinction? / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The ice retreat / by Fen Montaigne -- The inferno / by Christine Kenneally -- The end of the end of the world / by Jonathan Franzen -- The emergency / by Ben Taub -- The day the Great Plains burned / by Ian Frazier -- Life on a shrinking planet / by Bill McKibben -- Green Manhattan / by David Owen -- Big foot / by Michael Specter -- The great oasis / by Burkhard Bilger -- The climate fixers / by Michael Specter -- Adaptation / by Eric Klineberg -- Power brokers / by Bill McKibben -- Value meal / by Tad Friend -- Trailblazers / by Nicola Twilley -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Summary:

"A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change-including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0063017555
9780063017559
0063017547
9780063017542
0063029219
9780063029217

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136960053

LCCN:

2020039157

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

MCPB423 -- Radcliffe Public Library (Radcliffe)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)