Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change

by Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020660
• ISBN13: 9781478020660
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.