Environmental Change

Lost in a sea of information about climate change and global warming? Let's dive in and explore the significance of this massive issue. You can't get away from it on the news, the flood of climate change information is like a barrage. How are you supposed to make sense of it all? You know about the conferences on global warming, and you are still concerned about the political actions needed to impact global warming, but struggling to understand what that change actually looks like?

When a monstrous embodiment of pollution, Mr. K, emerges from the depths of a hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, it's up to Josephine, a young medium, and her allies, Rose and Gail, to confront the terrifying embodiment of climate change. Armed with the wisdom of the city's spectral guardians, plus the powers of the local gossip columnist Victoria Sinclair, Josephine rallies a community grappling with loss and despair. But Mr. K thrives on chaos, growing stronger with each act of environmental disregard. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, and the city teeters on the brink of ...

In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, Gerard Toal identifies geopolitics as the culprit.

Journalist Andrew Lewis chronicles the struggle of his New Jersey hometown to rebuild their ravaged homes in the face of the same environmental stresses and governmental neglect that are endangering coastal areas throughout the United States. Lewis grew up on the Bayshore, a 40-mile stretch of Delaware Bay beaches, marshland, and fishing hamlets at the southern end of New Jersey, whose working-class community is fighting to retain their place in a country that has left them behind.

Summer after summer is the hottest on record. People’s homes are flooding, burning, blowing away. We live with the loss, pain, and grief of what’s happened, and anxiety for what might happen next, as the systems in which we live are increasingly strained. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth addresses our collective concerns with empathy, grace, and practical strategies to help us all envision a viable future.

In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy, and environmental decay. Grace Olmstead, now a journalist in Washington, DC, is one who left, and in Uprooted, she examines the heartbreaking consequences of uprooting - for Emmett, and for the greater heartland America.

Unveiling the anticipated new release, "Defending Home," your essential companion in navigating the uncertain perimeters of a post-WWIII landscape. This compelling compilation isn't your average dystopian narrative; it's a vital survival guide, infused with practical strategies to overcome mammoth adversities thrust upon us by drastic geopolitical and societal changes in a world reshaped by warfare. "Defending Home" disentangles complexities with a balanced blend of fundamental knowledge and tactical adaptations. Understand the comprehensive facets of risk and its assessment, a stepping ...

Today just about everything we've known and relied on (our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures and institutions) is changing dramatically—too often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent, more authoritarian. Thomas Homer-Dixon calls on his extraordinary knowledge of complexity science, of how societies work and can evolve, and of our capacity to handle threats, to show that we can shift human civilization onto a new path if we mobilize our minds, spirits, imaginations and collective values.

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers and great power management, with global environmental politics (GEP) scholarship.

In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world–shattering communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of cutting-edge innovation. Telling unforgettable human stories, meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the forces that will define our future.

Everybody wants to be a superhero, because superheroes save the world. Kids can become superheroes too, by helping to save Earth. This hilarious fictional book with factual information will show children how they can start to help save their planet. Kids will learn about environmental concerns like recycling, global warming, greenhouse gases, water and energy saving, and they won’t even know because they’ll be laughing so much in this fun-filled, illustrated story for middle-grade children. All the knowledge they need is given in a light-hearted fictional way so they can help themselves...

The future of the environment ...plays out on a remote stage.As Jake Maguire, a young FBI special agent, sets out to investigate the murder of a celebrity environmentalist in far-off Mongolia, he finds himself in a race against time. With mining interests and a desperate killer hot on his tail, Jake must use all of his skills and training to unravel the mystery and prevent a lovely and intrepid investigative journalist from walking into danger. With nonstop action and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Murder in Mongolia is a thrilling tale of crime and international intrigue that will keep you ...

This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater.

Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world. In Disposable City, Miami resident Mario Alejandro Ariza shows us not only what climate change looks like on the ground today, but also what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and how that future has been shaped by the city's racist past and present.

"The Nuclear Option: Reducing Emissions, Securing Energy" is a comprehensive exploration of the potential and challenges of nuclear energy in the fight against climate change. This book delves into every aspect of nuclear energy, providing readers with an in-depth understanding of its workings, benefits, and implications. Starting with an introduction to the growing threat of climate change, the book sets the stage for why nuclear energy is a crucial option in tackling emissions. It offers a historical overview, tracing the discovery and development of nuclear energy from its early days to ...

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do.

In 2015, a group of young people sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe, depriving them of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. They Knew offers evidence for their claims, presenting a devastating account of the federal government's role in bringing about today's climate crisis. James Speth, tapped by the plaintiffs as an expert on climate, documents how administrations from Carter to Trump continued aggressive support of a fossil fuel-based energy system.

Every day we hear terrifying stories of prolonged droughts, heat waves, torrential floods, deepfreezes & hurricanes on the news. Every new year these weather phenomena become more extreme & unpredictable, it appears that mother nature grows angrier every new coming day. What more evidence do people need to fully believe that the climate is not just changing but has already changed for the worse. Hurricanes, tornadoes & typhoons are showing up in places they have never been before, & happening more frequently, they unleash the full wrath of mother nature onto the inhabitants of the coasts ...

Rachel Carson wasn’t always the Rachel Carson, renowned environmental activist. From her earliest years, Rachel had a passion for nature—to her, it was a fairyland, and she loved to write about her adventures and the creatures she saw. Encouraged by teachers, Rachel wanted nothing more than to study the ocean and its inhabitants. Though unable to finish her PhD due to financial constraints, Rachel found work in science and success as a nature writer.