High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

by Mark Lynas
High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

by Mark Lynas

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Overview

The No Logo of climate change – a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale.Climate change is not a concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book – based on the latest scientific evidence – the author takes us around the world to show the impact of global warming already being felt in people's lives.From sand-buried houses in China to thawing Alaskan plains, the author witnesses some of the worst effects of climate change at first hand. Some, like the floods in the UK, are near home. Others – like the drowning Pacific island of Tuvalu – are a world away from the exhaust pipes and factory chimneys that are actually causing global warming.But this isn't simply an inventory of disaster, it's a wry look at how people around the globe are coping as their world changes at unprecedented speed. In the process, the author eats whale blubber in Alaska, swims in shark-infested waters off the Great Barrier Reef and struggles to the top of Andean peaks in Peru. An adventure with a conscience and an argument with an urgent purpose, High Tide is an extremely important book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780007390717
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/07/2010
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 640 KB

About the Author

Mark Lynas is an activist, journalist and traveller. He was editor of the website www.oneworld.net and has made many appearances in the press and TV as a commentator on environmental issues. He is the author of High Tide and Six Degrees.

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