Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground (eBook, ePUB)

Adaptation in the Age of Warming

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive-yet realistic-position that humans and animals can adapt and persist despite these changes. Drawing on an emerging body of scientific research, Seidl brings us stories of adaptation from the natural world and from human communities. She offers examples of how plants, insects, birds, and mammals are already adapting both behaviorally and genetically. While some species will be unable to adapt to new conditions quickly enough to survive, Seidl argues that those that do can show us how to increase our own capacity for resilience if we work to change our collective behavior. In looking at climate change as an opportunity to establish new cultural norms, Seidl inspires readers to move beyond loss and offers a refreshing call to evolve.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807085998
• Artikelnr.: 37854587

Autorenporträt

Amy Seidl is an ecologist, writer, and teacher. She is the author of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World. Amy teaches at the University of Vermont and lives near Burlington with her husband and their children in a solar-powered home.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
 
chapter 1: Adapting to a Carbonated World
chapter 2: Fitting In
chapter 3: On Migration
chapter 4: Feast or Famine
chapter 5: Our Oldest and Newest Energy
chapter 6: Localizing Home
chapter 7: Self-Reliance 2.0
chapter 8: The Pragmatism of Adaptation
epilogue: Persistence
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Author’s Note on Cover Art