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Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
Maybe someday
49
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Readers
63/100Critics
36/100Scholars
Author:
Eugene Linden
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
April 5, 2022
A journalist who has been covering climate change since the 1980s explains how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, arguing that the same forces that have confused the public's mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff's edge is now within view.
What The Reviewers Say
In his urgent new book...journalist Eugene Linden gravely explains why the world has failed to stop the ongoing catastrophe of climate change.
In fascinating detail, Linden’s Fire and Flood tours the American scientific and political landscape that first grasped the fact of climate change and then forgot about it..
Linden is a clear, concise writer. He knows his climate science, and Fire and Flood makes points that stay with you..
It hurts to read...this book and yet this in-depth, expertly researched, but eminently readable title should be on every person’s bookshelf. Linden combines his analysis with solutions as to where humanity should and may go, and those solutions should surprise, enrage, and enlighten readers.
