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The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.

Climatic changes -- Literary collections.

Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Literary collections.

9780063017542 (hc.)

xvi, 541 p. ; 24 cm.

Foreword / by David Remnick -- Part I. A crack in the ice: how we got here. Reflections : the end of nature / by Bill McKibben ; The climate of man ; The darkening sea / by Elizabeth Kolbert ; Writers in the storm / by Kathryn Schulz ; The end of ice / by Dexter Filkins ; The new harpoon / by Tom Kizzia -- Part II. Hell and high water: where we are. The sixth extinction? / by Elizabeth Kolbert ; The ice retreat / by Fen Montaigne ; The inferno / by Christine Kenneally ; The end of the end of the world / by Jonathan Franzen ; The emergency / by Ben Taub ; The day the Great Plains burned / by Ian Frazier ; Life on a shrinking planet / by Bill McKibben -- Part III. Changing the weather: what we can do. Green Manhattan / by David Owen ; Big foot / by Michael Specter ; The great oasis / by Burkhard Bilger ; The climate fixers / by Michael Specter ; Adaptation / by Eric Klineberg ; Power brokers / by Bill McKibben ; Value meal / by Tad Friend ; Trailblazers / by Nicola Twilley -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Kolbert.

"In this anthology, you will find different approaches to climate change, across a range of geographies. To tell the story of the crisis -- it's past, present, and future -- the book will take you from Greenland to the Great Plains, into sepulchral laboratories and emerald rain forests. It will tell you how human beings created this epochal condition, even as early warnings were sounded; it will assess the consequences that climate change has already wrought, describe what the very near future portends; and explore what can be done to either forestall or try to cope with a looming cataclysm. You'll find science writers, foreign correspondents, essayists, and more engaged in the critical task of trying to think through our predicament. Collectively, their work will underscore what many people have, at long last, come to recognize: that climate change isn't an "issue" to be considered among a list of others. Rather, it concerns the very preconditions for all species to go on living on this planet."-- Foreword.

Remnick, David.

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