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Free Download L. S. Gardiner, "Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change"
English | ISBN: 1609385535 | 2018 | 170 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
So far, humanity hasn't done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we've dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places-a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be.