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Cargando... Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (2018)por Elizabeth Rush
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Read my review in Earth Island Journal. http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/lives_on_the_vulner... ( ) The Reading Across Rhode Island selection for 2020. I congratulate the selection committee for another great choice. To some it seems a stretch that the author included the section on the spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, but I think that works as an example of environmental work that has been successful. I think we need such examples when we contemplate climate change and sea-level rise. This is a scientific book, but the writing is lyrical, and the people in it, including the author, are real with real feelings. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice--a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins. At once polyphonic and precise, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities, both human and more than human, and on how to let go of the places we love." -- Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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