โ Smith, Sandy
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 118 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Six degrees: our future on a hotter planet
โ Scribed by Mark Lynas
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Fourth Estate
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007323522
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's drought establish a new colony on Greenland's southern tip, one of the few inhabitable areas not already crowded with environmental refugees. Vast pumping systems keep the water out of most of Holland, but the residents of Bangladesh and the Nile Delta enjoy no such protection. Meanwhile, in New York, a Category 5-plus superstorm pushes through the narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn, devastating waterside areas from Long Island to Manhattan. Pakistan, crippled by drought brought on by disappearing Himalayan...
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