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About this book
An "informative and vividly reported book" that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive (
San Francisco Chronicle).
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, and Vanity Fair. But it was only after he became a father that he started thinking about the two billion young people worldwide who will spend the rest of their lives coping with mounting climate disruption.
In Hot, he presents a well-researched blueprint for how all of us?parents, communities, companies, and countries?can navigate this unavoidable new era. Reporting from across the nation and around the world, Hertsgaard provides examples of ambitious attempts to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise, mega-storms, famine, and other threats—and an "urgent message . . . that citizens and governments cannot afford to ignore" ( The Boston Globe).
"This readable, passionate book is surprisingly optimistic: Seattle, Chicago, and New York are making long-term, comprehensive plans for flooding and drought. Impoverished farmers in the already drought-stricken African Sahel have discovered how to substantially improve yields and decrease malnutrition by growing trees among their crops, and the technique has spread across the region; Bangladeshis, some of the poorest and most flood-vulnerable yet resilient people on earth, are developing imaginative innovations such as weaving floating gardens from water hyacinth that lift with rising water. Contrasting the Netherlands' 200-year flood plans to the New Orleans Katrina disaster, Hertsgaard points out that social structures, even more than technology, will determine success, and persuasively argues that human survival depends on bottom-up, citizen-driven government action." — Publishers Weekly
"His analysis of the impact of global warming on industries as different as winemaking and insurance is intriguing, and his well-supported conclusion that social change can beat back climate change is inspiring . . . an exceptionally productive approach to a confounding reality." — Booklist
"This is an important book." —Bill McKibben
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, and Vanity Fair. But it was only after he became a father that he started thinking about the two billion young people worldwide who will spend the rest of their lives coping with mounting climate disruption.
In Hot, he presents a well-researched blueprint for how all of us?parents, communities, companies, and countries?can navigate this unavoidable new era. Reporting from across the nation and around the world, Hertsgaard provides examples of ambitious attempts to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise, mega-storms, famine, and other threats—and an "urgent message . . . that citizens and governments cannot afford to ignore" ( The Boston Globe).
"This readable, passionate book is surprisingly optimistic: Seattle, Chicago, and New York are making long-term, comprehensive plans for flooding and drought. Impoverished farmers in the already drought-stricken African Sahel have discovered how to substantially improve yields and decrease malnutrition by growing trees among their crops, and the technique has spread across the region; Bangladeshis, some of the poorest and most flood-vulnerable yet resilient people on earth, are developing imaginative innovations such as weaving floating gardens from water hyacinth that lift with rising water. Contrasting the Netherlands' 200-year flood plans to the New Orleans Katrina disaster, Hertsgaard points out that social structures, even more than technology, will determine success, and persuasively argues that human survival depends on bottom-up, citizen-driven government action." — Publishers Weekly
"His analysis of the impact of global warming on industries as different as winemaking and insurance is intriguing, and his well-supported conclusion that social change can beat back climate change is inspiring . . . an exceptionally productive approach to a confounding reality." — Booklist
"This is an important book." —Bill McKibben
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
acid rain, 279
acidification of the oceans, 59
activist movement, 288, 289
adaptation
critics of, 64–65
governments (overview), 60–63
as local activity, 124–25
meaning, 34–35
mitigation vs., 64–66, 69
“moving target” of, 63
urgency of, 47, 124
See also specific actions; specific locations
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach (Sussman/Freed), 162
Africa
about, 184–85
food security and, 189, 190, 191, 197
Millennium Villages program, 193–94
poverty, 186
See also FMNR (farmer-managed natural regeneration); specific locations
Aggarwala, Rohit, 102, 103–4, 283
agriculture
American Midwest floods (2008), 182–83
American Midwest production, 179
aquifer depletion, 180, 200–201, 204
biofuels and, 180, 213
California water use, 232–33
chemical use/effects, 179, 182
diversity and, 180–81, 196, 211–12
ecological destruction with, 179
food production decrease overview, 58–59
Green Revolution, 179, 181, 196, 197
greenhouse gas emissions, 71, 180, 184
heat waves, 181–82
human population growth and, 181, 196
monocultures, 179, 180–81, 196
no-till agriculture, 71, 214–15
runoff/effects, 179
subsidies to industrial agriculture, 196–97
urban gardens, 216–17
water use and, 179–80
See also China/agriculture; drought; food industry; GMOs; specific types
Agriculture at a C...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue: Growing Up Under Global Warming
- Living Through the Storm
- Three Feet of Water
- My Daughter’s Earth
- Ask the Climate Question
- The Two-Hundred-Year Plan
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
- In Vino Veritas: The Business of Climate Adaptation
- How Will We Feed Ourselves?
- While the Rich Avert Their Eyes
- “This Was a Crime”
- Epilogue: Chiara in the Year 2020
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes