Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change Audiobook (Free)

Americans have already been warned because the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar snow bedding and irreversibly change our weather. With little done since then to improve this dangerous route, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the hundred years, it’ll be hotter than at any point in the last two million years, and the sweeping effects of this switch will determine the future of life on the planet for years to come.

Taking listeners through the melting Alaskan permafrost to storm-torn New Orleans, acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Kolbert techniques this monumental problem from every position. She interviews research workers and environmentalists, explains the science, draws frightening parallels to lost civilizations and presents the shifting tales of people who are viewing their worlds disappear. Growing out of an award-winning three-part series for the brand new Yorker, Field Records from a Catastrophe brings the surroundings into the awareness from the American people and asks what, if anything, can be carried out to save our planet.