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The Parrot and the Igloo

✍ Scribed by David Lipsky

Book ID: 111727549
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Weight: 493 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780393866711

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✦ Synopsis

**A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 • A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book • A Next Big Idea Must-Read Book • A Library Journal What To Read In 2023 Book

The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life--through a history of climate denial and its consequences.**

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.

With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange...

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