Windfall : the booming business of global warming / McKenzie Funk.
Funk, McKenzie.
2014
HB615 .F86 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Windfall : the booming business of global warming / McKenzie Funk.
Author Funk, McKenzie.
ISBN 9781594204012 hardcover
1594204012 hardcover
Published New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number HB615 .F86 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.4/736373874
Summary "An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part 1: The melt. Cold rush : Canada defends the Northwest Passage ; Shell games : when an oil company believes in climate change ; Greenland rising : an independence movement heats up ; Father of invention : Israel saves the melting Alps
Part 2: The drought. Too big to burn : public fires, private firefighters ; Uphill to money : where water runs when it runs out ; Farmland grab : Wall Street goes to South Sudan ; Green wall, black wall : Africa tries to keep the Sahara at bay, Europe tries to keep Africa at bay
Part 3: The deluge. Great wall of India : what to do about the Bangladesh problem ; Seawalls for sale : why the Netherlands loves sea-level rise ; Better things for better living : climate genetics ; Problem solved : our geoengineered future
Epilogue: Magical thinking.

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