Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change

by Orin H. Pilkey, with Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, and Hannah L. Hayes Duke University Press 3/12/2024, paperback SKU: 9781478025443   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 temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world's poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and h