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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
304.28 WALLAC 2019
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304.28 WALLAC 2019
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304.28 WALLAC 2019
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Description

"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast....

2) An inconvenient apocalypse: environmental collapse, climate crisis, and the fate of humanity

Author

Jackson, Wes

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
333.7137 JACKSO 2022
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Description

"Confronting harsh ecological realities, this book explores the roots of social injustice and offers a down-powering path to "fewer and less." Since the advent of agriculture, humans have been depleting the ecological capital of the planet, with some doing far more damage than others. In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen, two of today's most prominent writers in the fields of sustainability studies, argue that to understand...

3) The elements we live by: how iron helps us breathe, potassium lets us see, and other surprising superpowers of the periodic table

Author

Røyne, Anja

Publisher

The Experiment

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
546 ROYNE 2020
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Description

"A journey through chemistry and physics introducing the elemental building blocks from which humans are made--iron, phosphorus, silicon, potassium, and more"--

4) Meltdown in Tibet: China's reckless destruction of ecosystems from the highlands of Tibet to the deltas of Asia

Author

Buckley, Michael

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.7 BUCKLE 2014
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Description

"Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change--accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to...

5) Before they're gone: a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks

Author

Lanza, Michael L

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

c2012

Language

English

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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
333.72 LANZA 2012
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Description

"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead ... He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit...