Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Summary: New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006
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Summary: "In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2024
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Summary: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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Contents: An invitation to Christian discernment -- Discernment: what is it? -- The foundations of discernment -- The practice of discernment in decision making -- Focusing the matter for discernment -- Memory's guidance -- Intuition's knowing -- Body's awareness -- Imagination's insight -- Reason's considerations -- The power of religious affections -- Nature's perspective -- Confirming one's tentative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westminster John Knox Press 2008
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Summary: Draws on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists, and other researchers to discuss the five devastating mass extinctions on Earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014