Sfida al pianeta Terra

Sfida al pianeta Terra

Un grido di dolore si leva dalle pagine dell’ultimo fascicolo del The New York Review of Books, vol. 53, n. 12, luglio 2006 da parte di Jim Hansen (Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Earth Institute).
L’autore recensisce tre recenti libri e un film dedicati al mutamento climatico incombente sul pianeta Terra:
The Threat to the Planet
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery. Atlantic Monthly Press, 357 pp.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert. Bloomsbury, 210 pp.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore. Melcher Media/Rodale, 325 pp.
An Inconvenient Truth, a film directed by Davis Guggenheim

Paolo Coccia