Ecologismo literario nas paginas do NYRBooks: vale ler...

Para os mais ecológicos que frequentam este blog, recomendo a leitura destas resenhas publicadas no New York Review of Books. Não sou adepto da religião, mas os artigos do NYRB são sempre de qualidade...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

The Message from the Glaciers
by Orville Schell
NYRBooks, May 27, 2010

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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis
Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Cambridge University Press, 996 pp., $90.00 (paper)

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
by Fred Pearce
Beacon, 324 pp., $16.00 (paper)

Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
by Craig Dilworth
Cambridge University Press, 546 pp., $90.00; $29.99 (paper)

Black Soot and the Survival of Tibetan Glaciers
by Baiqing Xu, Junji Cao, James Hansen, and others
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 29, 2009

On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead
by Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Y. Feng
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 23, 2008

The Great Melt: The Coming Transformation of the Arctic
by Alun Anderson
World Policy Journal, Winter 2009/2010

It was not so long ago that the parts of the globe covered permanently with ice and snow, the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greater Himalayas (“the abode of the snows” in Sanskrit), were viewed as distant, frigid climes of little consequence. Only the most intrepid adventurers were drawn to such desolate regions as the Tibetan Plateau, which, when finally surveyed, proved to have the planet’s fourteen highest peaks. Because these mountains encompass the largest nonpolar ice mass in the world—embracing some 46,298 glaciers covering 17 percent of the area’s land and since time immemorial have held water in frozen reserve for the people of Asia—they have come to be known as “The Third Pole.”

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