McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)
Summary: When we think "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to its vicissitudes. Tony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal guide to this phenomenon, and in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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Summary: "In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events-pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe,our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled-not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: A leading scientist on climate issues offers his views on the growing threat of human-caused climate change and looks at why the proposed solutions are not sufficient to stop a global meltdown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009