Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world’s poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious about mitigating climate change we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Earth
- The Lessons of Geologic Time
- The 2021 United Nations Climate Report
- Famine
- Permafrost
- Air
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Heat
- Bad Air
- Fire
- Wildfires
- Urban Firestorms
- Water
- Sea Level Rise
- Ocean Acidification
- Marine Heat Waves
- Tsunamis
- Floods
- Drought
- Water Supply
- Space
- Climate Refugees
- Climate Havens
- Green Cities
- Health
- Nature on the Move
- The Biosphere
- The Heart of the Matter
- New Ideas
- New Developments
- Bug-Out Bags: “Preparedness Perfects Response”
- To Learn More: Resources in Print and on Screen
- References and Additional Sources
- About the Authors
- Index
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- I
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- L
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- N
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- Q
- R
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