| Title: | Windfall : the booming business of global warming / |
| Authors: | McKenzie Funk, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | New York : Penguin Press, 2014 |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-0-698-15156-7 |
| Format: | 1 online resource (310 p., 16 p. of unnumbered plates) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | HB615 |
| Subjects: | Clean energy investment ; Entrepreneurship ; Global warming--Economic aspects |
| Description: | "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"-- |
| Contents note: | art 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 |
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