H Is for Hope : Climate Change from A to Z

Elizabeth Kolbert

ISBN 10: 1984863525 / ISBN 13: 9781984863522

Published by Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Mär 2024, 2024

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Neuware - In twenty-six essays one for each letter of the alphabet the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.Climate change resists narrative and yet some account of what s happening is needed. Millions of lives are at stake, and upward of a million species. And there are decisions to be made, even though it s unclear who, exactly, will make them.In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change from "A", for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world s first climate model in 1894, to "Z", for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg s "blah blah blah" speech ("B"), learns to fly an all-electric plane ("E"), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body ("T"), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change ("U").Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker and beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous a unique examination of our changing world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: H Is for Hope : Climate Change from A to Z
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Mär 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1984863525
• ISBN 13: 9781984863522
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 197H x 20D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 197 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 637 grams

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Synopsis

In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.

Climate change resists narrative—and yet some account of what’s happening is needed. Millions of lives are at stake, and upward of a million species. And there are decisions to be made, even though it’s unclear who, exactly, will make them.

In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from “A”, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to “Z”, for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech (“B”), learns to fly an all-electric plane (“E”), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (“T”), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (“U”).

Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker and beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous—a unique examination of our changing world.

About the Author

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, Wesley Allsbrook attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been recognized by The Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers, The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, the Television Academy and The Peabody Awards. She writes and draws for print, TV, film, games and immersive media. She’s autistic.