The sky is falling, and no one seems to be noticing. At least, no
one around these parts. According to British journalist Lynas, "a
2001 survey found that only 15% of US citizens correctly identified
fossil fuel-burning as the primary cause of global warming-far
behind Mexico, with 26% getting the right answer, and just behind
Cuba, with 17%." Despite the gainsaying of First World governments
and rightist think tanks, global warming is, Lynas argues, an
indisputable reality: there is no other good way to explain
phenomena such as the disappearance of Oceanic atolls, overwhelmed
by rising seas, and the ongoing inundation of the British Isles,
swept by flood-inducing rainstorms at levels not seen since the
time when weather records were first kept. Is there a smoking gun?
Perhaps no readily visible one, Lynas admits, but the
circumstantial evidence points strongly to Western industrial
lifestyles. Traveling the globe, calling on places such as
Aberdeen, Tuvalu, Beijing, and Tallahassee, Lynas gathers opinions,
evidence, and sightings, talks with atmospheric scientists and
ordinary citizens, and assembles some disturbing arguments: at the
end of the present century, he prophesies, the world sea level will
have risen by a meter, flooding fertile river deltas and putting
millions, and possibly billions, of people at risk. "Although the
most valuable real estate in places like Manhattan or Miami is
likely to be protected by sea walls for the foreseeable future," he
wryly notes, "it will be impossible to enclose all the world's
affected areas with concrete." And what is to be done? There are no
surprises in Lynas's recommendations: approve and enforce the Kyoto
Protocol, stop drilling for oil, reduce the industrial production
of greenhouse gases, drive less-and make sure everyone knows that
the sky is falling. For all environmental activists/educators-and
those new to the ongoing debate about global climate change.
(Kirkus Reviews)
The No Logo of climate change – a book that shows how global
warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that
has already happened on a global scale. Climate change is not a
concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book
– based on the latest scientific evidence – the
author takes us around the world to show the impact of global
warming already being felt in people's lives. From sand-buried
houses in China to thawing Alaskan plains, the author witnesses
some of the worst effects of climate change at first hand. Some,
like the floods in the UK, are near home. Others – like the
drowning Pacific island of Tuvalu – are a world away from
the exhaust pipes and factory chimneys that are actually causing
global warming. But this isn't simply an inventory of disaster,
it's a wry look at how people around the globe are coping as their
world changes at unprecedented speed. In the process, the author
eats whale blubber in Alaska, swims in shark-infested waters off
the Great Barrier Reef and struggles to the top of Andean peaks in
Peru. An adventure with a conscience and an argument with an urgent
purpose, High Tide is an extremely important book.
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