Betting the Farm on a Drought
Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Shows how farmers, ranchers, and fisherman--many of whom are not ideologically inclined to believe in man-made climate change--are affected by extreme weather, and the risks they are taking to deal with it.
Contents:
Sundance -- Comfortable in our ignorance -- Kindergarten in a fallout shelter -- Preaching to the choir -- Running from a grizzly in your slippers -- The other white meat -- Flying by wire -- Notes from the ivory clock tower -- "I never met a liberal before" -- The year the creeks stopped freezing -- "It's what I do" -- Penguins tumbling off an ice sheet.
ISBN:
9780292756618 (hardback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Climate McG | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.