Escaping Nature

How to Survive Global Climate Change

De: Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, Hannah L. Hayes

Narrado por: Marlin May

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees.

Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world’s poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction.

In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious about mitigating climate change we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.

The book is published by Duke University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"An eminently sensible user’s manual for saving the planet." (Kirkus)

“An excellent overview of climate change consequences and suggestions on how to effectively deal with these challenges.” (Albert C. Hine, coauthor of Sea Level Rise in Florida)

“Presenting a concise overview of the many calamities facing humanity...” (Joseph T. Kelley, coauthor of The World’s Beaches)