Originating from her award-winning series of articles in The New Yorker, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is Elizabeth Kolbert’s thoroughly researched and critical take on global warming which has become something of an environmental classic. Every continent is feeling the effects of climate change, she explains, and so too are their people as well as plants and animals – from species dramatically changing their behaviour (or disappearing) to populations moving into floating homes. By detailing the science, Kolbert achieves a sense of hope that goes some way towards counterbalancing the examples of impending doom and political incompetence. An essential companion to the author’s other celebrated take on the crisis: The Sixth Extinction.
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Originating from her award-winning series of articles in The New Yorker, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is Elizabeth Kolbert’s thoroughly researched and critical take on global warming which has become something of an environmental classic. Every continent is feeling the effects of climate change, she explains, and so too are their people as well as plants and animals – from species dramatically changing their behaviour (or disappearing) to populations moving into floating homes. By detailing the science, Kolbert achieves a sense of hope that goes some way towards counterbalancing the examples of impending doom and political incompetence. An essential companion to the author’s other celebrated take on the crisis: The Sixth Extinction.