The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change

Author

David Remnick

Call Number

• 363.73874 F811 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

Physical Description

xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm

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 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.

Contents

• 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.