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Journeys in the Wake of Global Warming
出版AuthorHouse, 2004-04
主題Fiction / Thrillers / SuspenseFiction / Thrillers / GeneralScience / Global Warming & Climate Change
ISBN14140914199781414091419
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pd3dwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋THE RISING portrays a modern America in an unfolding global warming calamity-not an instant asteroid armageddon, but a series of all too plausible, tragic scenarios. In Antarctica, enormous bodies of ice collapse triggering the rise of sea levels worldwide and tidal waves in the Atlantic-U.S. society approaches chaos as coastal cities are devastated and a ruthless martial law regime seals off California. The story explores the fragility of American civil order, testing cherished assumptions about what we say we stand for-personal freedom and responsibility, informed and open government, checks on the abuse of power. In this context, haunting adventures propel escaped convicts, academics, urban and rural women, men and children through physical adversity and psychological conflict. In the end, humanitarian values reemerge to challenge the realities of ecological brutality, governmental myopia and economic self-interest. This book is at once entertainment, a warning, and a cry of hope.