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Summary: "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousandsof homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WALMiller, Todd
Summary: "According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that a person is four times more likely to be forced to move due to environmental disaster than by war, and in 2015 alone, 19.2 million people were displaced worldwide by environmental disasters. Droughts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MILShah, Sonia
Summary: "A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020