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The Last Winter de Porter Fox

The Last Winter

Autor Porter Fox
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2022

Evoluția recentă a climatologiei a trecut de la simple predicții teoretice la documentarea unei realități fizice imediate: contracția accelerată a criosferei. În The Last Winter, Porter Fox investighează dispariția treptată a iernii, un fenomen care în ultimele cinci decenii a dus la pierderea a peste un milion de mile pătrate de zăpadă în emisfera nordică. Subliniem rigoarea cu care autorul transformă datele geologice în narațiune, călătorind de-a lungul liniei de zăpadă pentru a discuta cu experți despre punctele de inflexiune climatică, de la topirea permafrostului la riscul iminent de penurie de apă pentru populații vaste. Remarcăm o schimbare de perspectivă față de lucrarea sa anterioară, Northland. Dacă în acel volum Fox explora identitatea istorică și geografică a frontierei dintre SUA și Canada, aici miza devine globală și urgentă. Stilul rămâne fidel explorării de teren, însă tonul este marcat de o conștientizare a fragilității ecosistemelor pe care le parcurge. Această lucrare poate fi considerată o alternativă la The Future of Ice de Gretel Ehrlich pentru cursurile de geografie fizică sau ecologie, cu avantajul că aduce date actualizate despre reducerea cu 15-30% a acoperirii de zăpadă în SUA și analizează impactul direct asupra nivelului mărilor. Structura cărții, împărțită în patru călătorii tematice, permite cititorului să înțeleagă complexitatea fenomenului fără a fi copleșit de jargon. Apreciem modul în care experiența personală a autorului, crescut în Maine, se împletește cu mărturiile „aventurierilor” și oamenilor de știință care încearcă să salveze ceea ce a mai rămas din sezonul rece. Rezultatul este o analiză lucidă a modului în care scurtarea iernii cu o lună întreagă recalibrează mecanismele de supraviețuire ale planetei.

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ISBN-13: 9780316460903
ISBN-10: 0316460907
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 207 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cei interesați de geologie și schimbări climatice, oferind o perspectivă documentată pe teren asupra dispariției zăpezii. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a legăturii dintre topirea ghețarilor și securitatea resurselor de apă. Este o recomandare solidă pentru studenții la științele naturii și pentru activiștii de mediu care caută argumente fundamentate științific, prezentate prin prisma unei experiențe jurnalistice de excepție.

Notă biografică

Porter Fox was born in New York and raised on the coast of Maine. He is the author of Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border and DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow, featured on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Review and in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He lives, writes and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal Nowhere in upstate New York.

​His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Outside, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Powder, TheNewYorker.com, TheParisReview.com, Salon.com, Narrative, The Literary Review, and has been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing. He teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a MacDowell Fellow. He won a Western Press Association award in 2014 for a two-part feature about climate change and a Lowell Thomas Award for an excerpt from Northland.

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Praise for THE LAST WINTER:

'Before the snowpack vanishes and the glaciers melt away, The Last Winter takes us on a tour of all we are poised to lose - the beauties and elations and wonders, both natural and human, to be found in frigid latitudes and altitudes. Fox writes perceptively and knowledgably but also lovingly about the places and people he encounters along the way.'
Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck and The Inner Coast

'As winter vanishes, so do the many cultures forged by glacier, ice floe, and permafrost. Porter Fox has written an imaginative and deeply personal travelogue that reveals how climate change is not only a threat to our future, but a threat to our past.'
Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth

'The importance of ice was not as clear to me as it should have been. It is now. This is a rousing, literate, multi-continental tour of the cryosphere. Check it out: the end of winter, if we fail to prevent it, will be the end of the world as we know it.'
William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days

'The Last Winter is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. It's filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from a Paul Theroux or Peter Mathiessen novel. Riveting, unforgettable, and important.'
Tom Bissell, author of Apostle

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As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.
In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world.
This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in northern Maine.
Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last Winter showcases a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change-which may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.

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deeply researched, beautifully written, adventure-filled book
Before the snowpack vanishes and the glaciers melt away, The Last Winter takes us on a tour of all we are poised to lose - the beauties and elations and wonders, both natural and human, to be found in frigid latitudes and altitudes. Fox writes perceptively and knowledgably but also lovingly about the places and people he encounters along the way .

As winter vanishes, so do the many cultures forged by glacier, ice floe, and permafrost. Porter Fox has written an imaginative and deeply personal travelogue that reveals how climate change is not only a threat to our future, but a threat to our past.
The importance of ice was not as clear to me as it should have been. It is now. This is a rousing, literate, multi-continental tour of the cryosphere. Check it out: the end of winter, if we fail to prevent it, will be the end of the world as we know it.
The Last Winter is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. It ' s filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from a Paul Theroux or Peter Mathiessen novel. Riveting, unforgettable, and important .