Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss

by Allan W. Shearer, P.H. Liotta, P. H. Liotta

Book Overview

Highlighting the connections between climate change and human security, this book elucidates what might happen when a mere 10-degree drop in average temperature results in a sudden inability to produce enough food, when rapidly advancing desertification produces water scarcities where none existed before, and when newly frozen landscapes lead to more power plants for energy, resulting in increased air pollution. The destabilizing effects of these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275987973
• ISBN13: 9780275987978
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 8.8"