Description
Book SynopsisThe award-winning author of The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone offers a lively, thought-provoking overview of climate change from the perspectives of people who are dealing with it on the ground.
Trade Review"This title deserves a wide and varied readership; it has the power to change minds." * Booklist *
"The author may have found that there is reason to despair on the legislative level, but fortunately, he also found more openness to finding common ground among common folks. . . . [He] provides plenty of reasons for optimism because it is clear that people are not ignoring this issue." * Austin American-Statesman *
"(McGraw’s) story illustrates how the debate over fracking has ascended to the level of abortion or same-sex marriage as an indicator of political tribe. Those with agendas on either side can obscure the climate benefits of natural gas, the fossil fuel with the smallest carbon footprint, or downplay the real environmental hazards that fracking can cause." * The Times-Tribune *
"Effectively blending story, science, and context, this engaging, readable book will be invaluable for those studying or working on issues associated with climate change, especially those with a social science or policy focus." * Choice *
Table of Contents1. Sundance
2. Comfortable in Our Ignorance
3. Kindergarten in a Fallout Shelter
4. Preaching to the Choir
5. Running from a Grizzly in Your Slippers
6. The Other White Meat
7. Flying by Wire
8. Notes from the Ivory Clock Tower
9. "I Never Met a Liberal Before"
10. The Year the Creeks Stopped Freezing
11. "It's What I Do"
12. Penguins Tumbling Off an Ice Sheet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
