The Resource Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward, David W. Orr
Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward, David W. Orr
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- Summary
- Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300222814
- Label
- Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward
- Title
- Dangerous years
- Title remainder
- climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward
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- David W. Orr
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability
- Summary
- A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability
- Award
- Green Prize for Sustainable Literature: Adult Nonfiction, 2017.
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- 1944-
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- Orr, David W.
- Dewey number
- 363.738/74
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC903
- LC item number
- .O77 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Climatic changes
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- adult
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- climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward
- Label
- Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward, David W. Orr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-285) and index
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- ocn946481817
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- 22 cm
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- xix, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300222814
- Lccn
- 2016939429
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- (OCoLC)946481817
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- Dangerous years : climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward, David W. Orr
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