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When the Planet Rages - Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth (Paperback)
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When the Planet Rages - Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth (Paperback)
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In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops
failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even
worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain
markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic
eruption--a year earlier on the other side of the world--the
eruption of Tambora, a blast heard almost a thousand miles
away.
In When the Planet Rages, Charles Officer and Jake Page describe
some of the great events of environmental history, from calamities
such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (the greatest in recorded
history) and the ice ages, to recent man-made disasters such as
Chernobyl, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Officer
and Page provide fascinating discussions of meteorites and comets;
of the demise of mammoths, mastodons, and dinosaurs; and of great
floods that have swept the earth. But they also show that human
activity can make trouble for nature, discussing the depletion of
natural resources (we burn coal and oil at millions of times their
natural rate of production), air pollution in Los Angeles and
London (where the Killer Smog of 1952 caused the death of some four
thousand people), and the pollution of major waterways, like the
Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie. For the paperback edition, the
authors have included a new preface, have added material on the
recent Sichuan, China earthquake, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and
Hurricane Katrina, and discuss such topics as of the
(un)predictability of symptoms of global warming.
Ranging from the monumental eruption at Krakatoa to industrial
disasters such as the mercury poisoning in Japan's Minamata Bay,
When the Planet Rages will engage anyone concerned with the
environment and the natural world.
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