Hertsgaard, Mark. Hot: Living Through the Fifty Years on Earth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
As America endures the harshest winter in recent memory and ardently hopes the groundhogs are right about an early spring it is rather difficult to discuss global warming. Indeed, the whole concept has become such a “political football” that people find more vagueness than truth. That was what veteran journalist Hertsgaard had to face after the 2005 birth of his daughter in trying to predict what life would be like when she reached adulthood. He discovered that future droughts might kill millions especially in increasingly overpopulated regions with their huge demand for fresh drinking water. Hertsgaard contrasts a funded two century plan by the Netherlands to protect itself from rising sea levels to the failure of current governments in Louisiana to plan against flooding even worse than that brought on by Hurricane Katrina. Successes in “adaptation” are cited in African countries that have reclaimed arable land and planted trees amidst their crops.
Merrick Library also has these books by Mark Hertsgaard:
A Day in the Life: The Music and the Artistry of the Beatles
On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency
Reviewed by Librarian Bob.
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