Elizabeth Kolbert

Explores the issue of global warming from every angle, incorporating interviews with researchers and environmentalists, explaining the science and the studies, and presenting the personal tales of those who are being affected most.

Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

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 will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come. Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear.--From publisher description.

Isinya koleksi laporan tentang dampak iklim di berbagai aspek. Agak lempeng tapi aku cukup suka tulisannya; sistematik dan beliau bisa menempatkan diri dengan jarak yg pas dari isu yang ia bawa supaya ga ngeprime pembaca dengan sentimen pribadinya. Informasinya jadi bisa sampai dengan lebih baik.

Andrew John Kinney

The content is not uplifting, but this message needs to be heard.

A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.

Melody Izard

I don't mean to imply that I don't think this is an important subject. And interesting - I do find it interesting. The topic, I mean. But the way Elizabeth presented it to me - not so much. Or maybe I wasn't in the mood for listening. I was flying to Santa Fe for god's sake. I was using more than my fair share of fossil fuels and merrily contributing to the melting of glaciers, the eliminating of the permafrost and the spewing of carbon dioxide willy nilly into the air. I did not want to have all that responsibility heaped on me as I set off for a vacation. She really gives us no hope you know. Her conclusion is that we will join the ranks of the Anasazis and the Olmecs because we've ignored the warnings for so long and now it is just too late. She wags her finger at Bush and Cheney - but I think she was talking to me too and I was just not in the mood to carry around all that guilt.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe Man, Nature, and Climate Change

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