{"product_id":"global-fever-william-h-calvin-9780226092041","title":"Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change","description":"Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there's no question that global warming has made the Earth sick, and the outlook for the future calls for ever-warmer temperatures and deadlier results. Something must be done-but how quickly?\u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eGlobal Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, William H. Calvin delivers both a clear-eyed diagnosis and a strongly worded prescription. In striking, straightforward language, he first clearly sets out the current state of the Earth's warming climate and the disastrous possibilities ahead should we continue on our current path. Increasing temperatures will kill off vegetation and dry up water resources, and their loss will lead, in an increasingly destructive feedback loop, to even more warming. Resource depletion, drought, and disease will follow, leading to socioeconomic upheaval-and accompanying violence-on a scale barely conceivable.\u003cbr\u003e It is still possible, Calvin argues, to avoid such a dire fate. But we must act now, aggressively funneling resources into jump-starting what would amount to a third industrial revolution, this one of clean technologies-while simultaneously expanding our use of existing low-emission technologies, from nuclear power to plug-in hybrid vehicles, until we achieve the necessary scientific breakthroughs.\u003cbr\u003e Passionately written, yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Fever\u003c\/i\u003e delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of our planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William H. Calvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226092046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226092041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.24w x 1.20d","brand":"William H. Calvin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46110626054399,"sku":"9780226092041","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dab5e14a-78a4-495e-aac0-6cad337c97f4.jpg?v=1725469311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-fever-william-h-calvin-9780226092041","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}