The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial - Couverture rigide

Lipsky, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 039386670X ISBN 13 : 9780393866704

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2023

Synopsis

The New York Times best-selling author explores how “anti-science” became so virulent in American life―through a history of climate denial and its consequences.

Climate change has become an unavoidable fact and ongoing catastrophe. The science was clear decades ago. How did so many Americans come to doubt evidence so widely accepted and compelling?

The Parrot and the Igloo is the thrilling narrative of our grand lost march: the story of the inventors (Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse) who made our world; the scientists who bravely sounded the alarm; and then the hucksters, dreamers, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science. David Lipsky masterfully shows how climate denial grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes, revealing the infrastructure that allowed denier ideas to take hold, the untrue to replace the true. With narrative brio, Lipsky delivers a real-life tragicomedy―one that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, and many others. He contributes to NPR's All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award. He's the author of the novel The Art Fair; a collection, Three Thousand Dollars; and the bestselling nonfiction book Absolutely American, which was a Time magazine Best Book of the Year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 039386670X
• ISBN 13: 9780393866704
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible