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The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an
award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for
more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was
presented with the findings of scientists who had been
investigating whether human activities might change the climate in
harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is
too late," their report said. They were right -- but no one was
listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences
of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and
denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of
what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the
seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. Fire and
Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate
change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden
retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by
decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the
reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific
understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth,
the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden
has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world,
in a book that it is gripping as history, as economic
investigation, and as scientific thriller.
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an
award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for
more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was
presented with the findings of scientists who had been
investigating whether human activities might change the climate in
harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is
too late," their report said. They were right -- but no one was
listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences
of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and
denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of
what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the
seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. Fire and
Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate
change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden
retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by
decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the
reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific
understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth,
the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden
has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world,
in a book that it is gripping as history, as economic
investigation, and as scientific thriller.
As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake
of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how
this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come.
Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors,
Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why
those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat
out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and investment
instruments that we now take for granted, has prospered in every
market for the past fifty years, particularly in today's bear
market. In The Mind of Wall Street he recounts stories of his
successes and failures to illustrate how investor psychology and
willful self-deception so often play critical roles in the process.
Like his peers George Soros and Warren Buffett, Levy takes a long
and broad view of the rhythms of the markets and the economy. He
also offers a provocative analysis of the spectacular Internet
bubble, showing that the market has not yet completely recovered
from its bout of "irrational exuberance." The Mind of Wall Street
is essential reading for all of us, whether we are active traders
or simply modest contributors to our 401(k) plans, as volatile and
unnerving markets come to define so much of our net worth.
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape--even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.
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