A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and
groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate
emergency In 1989, 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.
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