LEADER 04694nam 2200601 450 001 9910817292703321 005 20210616184320.0 010 $a1-4773-0383-9 010 $a1-4773-0382-0 024 7 $a10.7560/756618 035 $a(CKB)3710000000356157 035 $a(EBL)3571922 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001439824 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12605573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001439824 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11384135 035 $a(PQKB)11563257 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571922 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11022828 035 $a(OCoLC)903584571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571922 035 $a(DE-B1597)588365 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477303825 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000356157 100 $a20150304h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetting the farm on a drought $estories from the front lines of climate change /$fSeamus McGraw 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-75661-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""1. Sundance""; ""2. Comfortable in Our Ignorance""; ""3. Kindergarten in a Fallout Shelter""; ""4. Preaching to the Choir""; ""5. Running from a Grizzly in Your Slippers""; ""6. The Other White Meat""; ""7. Flying by Wire""; ""8. Notes from the Ivory Clock Tower""; ""9. "I Never Met a Liberal Before"""; ""10. The Year the Creeks Stopped Freezing""; ""11. "It's What I Do"""; ""12. Penguins Tumbling Off an Ice Sheet""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a"Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary people dealing with stronger storms and more intense droughts than they've ever known. This middle ground is the focus of Betting the Farm on a Drought, a lively, thought-provoking book that lays out the whole story of climate change--2014;the science, the math, and most importantly, the human stories of people fighting both the climate and their own deeply held beliefs to find creative solutions to a host of environmental challenges.. Seamus McGraw takes us on a trip along America's culturally fractured back roads and listens to farmers and ranchers and fishermen, many of them people who are not ideologically, politically, or in some cases even religiously inclined to believe in man-made global climate change. He shows us how they are already being affected and the risks they are already taking on a personal level to deal with extreme weather and its very real consequences for their livelihoods. McGraw also speaks to scientists and policymakers who are trying to harness that most renewable of American resources, a sense of hope and self-reliance that remains strong in the face of daunting challenges. By bringing these voices together, Betting the Farm on a Drought ultimately becomes a model for how we all might have a pragmatic, reasoned conversation about our changing climate."--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"This book takes a survey of climate change today: it lays out for the everyman what is happening, why it's happening, and what some people are doing about it. But rather than get mired in polemics or scientific jargon, as so many other books have done, Tempest tackles the issue through the people who are dealing with it--scientists, yes, but also fishermen and farmers who, even if they're not ready to concede global warming is a manmade problem, are adapting to a world of stronger storms and more intense droughts in creative ways. By telling such human stories, McGraw hopes to move readers beyond partisan divisions and into the much-needed common ground. Otherwise, as he says, "if the melting ice caps and rising oceans don't get us, we're all going to drown in the viscera of each other's gored oxen.""--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aClimatic changes$zUnited States$vPopular works 615 0$aClimatic changes 676 $a363.738/740973 686 $aNAT011000$2bisacsh 700 $aMcGraw$b Seamus$01664874 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817292703321 996 $aBetting the farm on a drought$94092005 997 $aUNINA