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Windfall : the booming business of global warming / McKenzie Funk.
LIBRA HB615 .F86 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Funk, McKenzie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entrepreneurship.
- Global warming--Economic aspects.
- Global warming.
- Clean energy investment.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Wind fall
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594204012
- 1594204012
- OCLC:
- 849719205
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