Taillant masterfully takes us on a journey through the profound changes our cryosphere is suffering from climate change and how melting glaciers that are vanishing around the world will not only destroy delicate ecosystems, from oceans to coastlines and from urban environments to forests, but how they will radically change how we live on Earth in ways not yet imagined. His unique capacity to bring together media, science, politics, and society in understandable prose offers a powerful wake-up call to our deepening climate crisis.

Autorentext
Jorge Daniel Taillant is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Environment. Born in Argentina, raised in California, and now living in Florida, he has lived and worked around the world to promote sustainability and social justice. Taillant was key to getting the first glacier protection law passed in 2010, and he has developed educational materials about glaciers for children and adults. He is the author of numerous publications on the impacts of mining on glaciers, including his most recent book Glaciers: The Politics of Ice (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Klappentext

In Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant explains the ways glaciers influence our ecosystem and what we need to know about a changing climate. He takes readers deep into the cryosphere and explains how glacier melt will impact the way we live. The book reveals the importance of glaciers, what happens to the planet when they melt, and how humans can survive in these changing circumstances.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgements

• Foreword

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: And Then There Was Ice

• Chapter 2: The Rising Seas

• Chapter 3: Do You Drink Glacier Water? Probably

• Chapter 4: Glaciers are White, the Ocean is Blue, the Earth is Warming, and So are You!

• Chapter 5: A Thawing Earth

• Chapter 6: Run! The Mountain is Coming!

• Chapter 7: Ocean Currents, Jet Streams, and Polar Bears

• Chapter 8: Invisible Glaciers... Will They Save Us?

• Chapter 9: A Race to Save Everything

• Chapter 10: Why for COVID but Not for Climate?

• Bibliography

• About the Author

• Index