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Our Biggest Experiment - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2022 - A History of the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
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Our Biggest Experiment - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2022 - A History of the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
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It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's
rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first
warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could
send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At
the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells
Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who
helped to build our modern understanding of climate change. It also
chronicles our energy system, from whale oil to kerosene and beyond
-- the first steamships, wind turbines, electric cars, oil tankers
and fridges. Alice Bell takes us back to climate change science's
earliest steps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the
advancing realisation that global warming was a significant problem
in the 1950s and right up to today, where we have seen the growth
of the environmental movement, climate scepticism and political
responses like the UN climate talks. As citizens of the
twenty-first century, it can feel like history has dealt us a
rather bad hand in the climate crisis. In many ways, this is true.
Our ancestors have left us an almighty mess. But they left us tools
for survival too, and Our Biggest Experiment tells both sides of
the story. The message of the book is ultimately hopeful;
harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has long driven the
history of climate change research can mean a more sustainable and
bearable future for humanity.
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