The Creeks Will Rise: People Coexisting with Floods - Couverture souple

McKibben, Bill; Becker, William

 
9781682752753: The Creeks Will Rise: People Coexisting with Floods
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1682752755 ISBN 13 : 9781682752753
Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2021

Synopsis

In pursuit of economic growth, the United States and other developed countries are testing the tolerance of the natural world. The results include the loss of valuable ecosystems, global climate change and the degradation of the planet's ability to support life. Journalist William Becker argues that our mission in the 21st century should be to fix what we have broken in the natural world and to enlist healthy ecosystems in our pursuit of economic and physical security. Becker begins by sounding an alarm about the inability of the dams and levees we built over the last century to handle the severity of sea-level rise and record floods we see today. It's time, he suggests, to give floodplains back to rivers.

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À propos de l?auteur

William Becker is a writer, journalist, and policy expert on energy, climate change, and disaster prevention and recovery. His career includes roles as the Executive Assistant to the Attorney General of Wisconsin, Counselor to the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. He earned a Bronze Medal as a U.S. Army combat correspondent during the Vietnam War and served as a writer/photographer for the Associated Press, editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, and publisher of his own weekly newspaper in Wisconsin. Find his current events writing at https: //the-real-biocene.net. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, educator, climate activist, and the author of The End of Nature, widely regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience.

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Éditeur
Chicago Review Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1682752755
ISBN 13 
9781682752753
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
366
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