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Ladataan... The Secret Lives of Glaciers (vuoden 2019 painos)Tekijä: M Jackson (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A book about the complex relationship between the people of Iceland and their changing glaciers. The author takes great pains to argue that there is much more to it than glaciers melting due to global warming, and there are chapters on the history of the ice coming and going, the hardships it produced and the complicated reasons why otherwise intelligent people choose not to see what's happening now. Some of it made sense and some of it made me scratch my head. There was for instance an interminable chapter on the minutia of ice cave tourism, all to make the point that global warming has revived the industry in Iceland, as people rush to see the ice before it's gone. There's a lot of repetition and beating points to death, and frankly I can't see how these arguments serve to bring attention to the problem at hand--on the contrary, they would seem to provide ammunition to climate deniers as much as anything, ( ) Dr. M Jackson, a geologist and glaciologist, examines the diverse relations between people and ice using the framework of Iceland. This wide ranging book is written for the general public and isn't weighed down with jargon. It explores the many facets of glaciers; more than just melt, ice as the most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change. The author uses examples to show how the emotional and psychological state of the person controls how environmental information is transmitted and received. Over all quite interesting and approachable, an icy blue love story. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Our planet has over 400,000 glaciers and ice caps scattered across its surface, some 5.8 million square miles of ice. Fascinatingly, where there are glaciers, there are people, and the two have been interacting for the entirety of human history. But we know so little about that interaction, those human stories of glaciers. The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores glacier diversity in Iceland, highlighting the rich social and cultural context and variability amongst glaciers and people. Investigating glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earths systems. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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