Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman, and Cat Gould narrate this timely collection of climate-change nonfiction from THE NEW YORKER magazine with engagement, clarity, and an admirable mix of insistence and calm. Written by many of the magazine’s most well-known authors, including Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, Burkhard Bilger, Kathryn Schulz, and Ian Frazer, the pieces focus on “how we got here, where we are, and what we can do now.” The information they relate is serially eye-opening, terrifying, and riveting. Kolbert’s afterword doesn’t comfort but will make you get out of your car, turn down the heat and air-conditioning, and eat fewer animals. Preferably by yesterday. That’s why the narrators’ articulate, unruffled readings are essential; they keep us listening to news that must no longer be avoided. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2020 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book
One of the Daily Beast's 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election
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
Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels,*New Yorker*writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet.*
At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then,*the*New Yorker*has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face.*
The Fragile Earth*tells the story of climate change-its past, present, and future-taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book
One of the Daily Beast's 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election
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
Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels,*New Yorker*writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet.*
At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then,*the*New Yorker*has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face.*
The Fragile Earth*tells the story of climate change-its past, present, and future-taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940173271709 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 10/06/2020 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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