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Windfall : the booming business of global warming / McKenzie Funk.

by Funk, McKenzie.

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The Penguin Press, c2014.

363.73874 F982w

Entrepreneurship.

Global warming -- Economic aspects.

Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.

Clean energy investment.

9781594204012 (hc.)

1594204012 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Wind fall : the booming business of global warming

310 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: The melt. Cold rush : Canada defends the Northwest Passage ; Shell games : when an oil company believes in climate change ; Greenland rising : an independence movement heats up ; Father of invention : Israel saves the melting Alps -- Part 2: The drought. Too big to burn : public fires, private firefighters ; Uphill to money : where water runs when it runs out ; Farmland grab : Wall Street goes to South Sudan ; Green wall, black wall : Africa tries to keep the Sahara at bay, Europe tries to keep Africa at bay -- Part 3: The deluge. Great wall of India : what to do about the Bangladesh problem ; Seawalls for sale : why the Netherlands loves sea-level rise ; Better things for better living : climate genetics ; Problem solved : our geoengineered future -- Epilogue: Magical thinking.

"An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"--Publisher.

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