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Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
1265) The power of big oil
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometres of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu's ancestors have roamed this great expanse,...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This dissertation is a collection of stories and experiences from the Tibetan nomads surrounding the DzaChu (Mekong River) of Kham, in Qinghai Province. The DzaChu is a sacred area that is threatened by climate change. The author uses mindful inquiry as the basis of this ethnographic study. Long term participatory observation and over thirty focus groups within the DzaChu Watershed point to the thesis: Climate Change is one of the greatest threats...
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks, and voices--from past and present--to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change"--Publisher website.
1274) Immeasurable weather: meteorological data and settler colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
1278) NAFTA and climate change
Author
Publisher
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Series
Synthesis and assessment product volume 4.1
Publisher
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English