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Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBo4GaMl

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

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Full title

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

Publisher

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Call Numbers

G 2019/1952

Record Identifier

74VKVBo4GaMl

MMS ID

991024241611702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Introduction : the reckoning -- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979 -- Mirror worlds : spring 1979 -- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 -- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 -- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 -- Tiger on the road : October 1...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2019.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"-- Publis...

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Full title

Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2019/1952

Record Identifier

74VKVBo4GaMl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBo4GaMl

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0374191336 (hardcover)

9780374191337 (hardcover)

DDC

363.73874

MMS ID

991024241611702626

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