Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground

Adaptation in the Age of Warming

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While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive-yet realistic-position that humans and animals can adapt and persist despite these changes. Drawing on an emerging body of scientific research, Seidl brings us stories of adaptation from the natural world and from human communities. She offers examples of how plants, insects, birds, and mammals are already adapting both behaviorally and genetically. While som… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8070-8598-1
EAN: 9780807085981
Produktnummer: 10727350
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 208 S.

Über den Autor

Amy Seidl is an ecologist, writer, and teacher. She is the author of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World. Amy teaches at the University of Vermont and lives near Burlington with her husband and their children in a solar-powered home.