The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

by Dianne Dumanoski

Book Overview

For the past twelve thousand years, Earth's stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth's history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet's very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already bearing down, hitting harder and faster than expected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307396096
• ISBN13: 9780307396099
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"