TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann,Michael E.
TI  - Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
SN  - 9781541702899
AV  - QC903 .M36255 2023
U1  - 363.738/746 23/eng20230706
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - History
KW  - Climate change mitigation
KW  - Climat
KW  - Changements
KW  - Histoire
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Climate
KW  - sears
KW  - Informational works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Documents d'information
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-289) and index; Our moment begins -- Gaia and Medea : snowball Earth and the faint young Sun -- The great dying wasn't so great -- Mighty brontosaurus : don't you have a lesson for us? -- Hothouse Earth -- A message in the ice -- Beyond the hockey stick -- Past is prologue. Or is it?
N2  - "The conditions that allowed humans to live on Earth are incredibly fragile. Climate variability has at times created new niches that humans or their ancestors could potentially exploit, and challenges that at times have spurred innovation. But there's a relatively narrow envelope of climate variability within which human civilization remains viable, and our survival depends on conditions remaining within that range. In this book, renowned climate scientist Michael Mann provides readers with the knowledge necessary to appreciate the gravity of the unfolding climate crisis, while emboldening them to act before it is too late"--
ER  -