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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explore and understand the intriguing science behind climate change. Gain valuable knowledge on why climate change is occurring - one of the planet's most challenging issues - and analyze possible solutions"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The prospect of a Green New Deal-sustainable energy, and justice for all Americans-has instilled millions of people with a sense of hope. To make it happen, the plan will require a national mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II. But will it be enough to prevent disaster? Scientists now warn that we have little time to eliminate greenhouse emissions. To do what's required, Stan Cox urges readers to embrace the Green New Deal but go beyond...
3) Cómo evitar un desastre climático: las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
En este libro urgente y necesario Bill Gates propone un plan amplio, práctico --y comprensible-- para conseguir que el mundo llegue a cero emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero para así evitar una catástrofe climática. Bill Gates ha pasado una década investigando las causas y efectos del cambio climático. Con la ayuda de expertos en los campos de la física, la química, la biología, la ingeniería, las ciencias políticas y las finanzas,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
6) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Young reader's edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
Jahren, a geobiologist, has written an impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Our enterprising spirit has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon-- but that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels....
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