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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