{"product_id":"climate-chaos-brian-fagan-9781541750876","title":"Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.\u003c\/b\u003e Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of history's mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe challenges are no less great today. We face hurricanes and megafires and food shortages and more. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: the past. Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 154175087X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541750876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.45h x 6.34w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2021 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/20\/2021","brand":"Brian Fagan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053571633407,"sku":"9781541750876","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e6452d1-7b76-4a51-8242-48148fb5099d.jpg?v=1685025065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/climate-chaos-brian-fagan-9781541750876","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}