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Big CoalThe Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
Category: Non-Fiction
In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's "economic destiny."Despite a devastating, century-long legacy that has claimed millions of lives and ravaged the environ ...Show more
Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
Category: Politics
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.'When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barre ...Show more
How To Cool The Planet:geoengineeri by GOODELL Jeff
Category: Non-Fiction
When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term 'geoengineering', he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was also intrigued. The planet was in trouble. Could geoengineers help? As Goodell shows in this book, ev ...Show more
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
Category: Science
By century's end, hundreds of millions of people will be retreating from the world's shores. Nuclear reactors will be decommissioned. The greatest cities in human history, abandoned. This is the story of our rising seas. In a shocking cover story for Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell predicted that within the ...Show more
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
Category: Science
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of 2017 "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our ...Show more
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