Overview

Full Product Details

9780820354361

Table of Contents

Reviews

All the world will feel the effects of our rapidly changing climate, of course--and those spots that we cherish most for their sense of place, their long-standing in our hearts, will be the hardest to watch change. Perhaps these fine reflections will spur us to some of the action necessary to minimize the damage!--Bill McKibben author of The End of Nature Imagining an unwanted future is something most people aren't willing to do. This book is full of quiet heroes who help communities in the Southeast imagine a future they do want. It isn't easy, but it's crucial.--Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University Sudden Spring is an urgent, important book. Stroll down a southeastern beach in the United States and climate change will no longer be a theoretical, distant problem. Stranded houses jut out of the sand like the Statue of Liberty at the end of the original Planet of the Apes. The ocean is rising, and this isn't hard to see on the Outer Banks or in Miami or Norfolk, Virginia, where the military, at least, are no longer climate skeptics. Rick Van Noy has done us all a service by issuing this wake-up call. As he points out, humans have not evolved to face long-term threats, but as this book makes clear, we need to adapt sooner rather than later. Our survival depends on it.--David Gessner author of All the Wild That Remains In Sudden Spring, author Rick Van Noy provides a gripping account of the threat that climate change already poses to the American South. But this a tale of hope as well. Van Noy describes how the South can still rise to the challenge.--Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State

All the world will feel the effects of our rapidly changing climate, of course--and those spots that we cherish most for their sense of place, their long-standing in our hearts, will be the hardest to watch change. Perhaps these fine reflections will spur us to some of the action necessary to minimize the damage!--Bill McKibben author of The End of Nature Imagining an unwanted future is something most people aren't willing to do. This book is full of quiet heroes who help communities in the Southeast imagine a future they do want. It isn't easy, but it's crucial.--Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University In Sudden Spring, author Rick Van Noy provides a gripping account of the threat that climate change already poses to the American South. But this a tale of hope as well. Van Noy describes how the South can still rise to the challenge.--Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State Sudden Spring is an urgent, important book. Stroll down a southeastern beach in the United States and climate change will no longer be a theoretical, distant problem. Stranded houses jut out of the sand like the Statue of Liberty at the end of the original Planet of the Apes. The ocean is rising, and this isn't hard to see on the Outer Banks or in Miami or Norfolk, Virginia, where the military, at least, are no longer climate skeptics. Rick Van Noy has done us all a service by issuing this wake-up call. As he points out, humans have not evolved to face long-term threats, but as this book makes clear, we need to adapt sooner rather than later. Our survival depends on it.--David Gessner author of All the Wild That Remains

All the world will feel the effects of our rapidly changing climate, of course--and those spots that we cherish most for their sense of place, their long-standing in our hearts, will be the hardest to watch change. Perhaps these fine reflections will spur us to some of the action necessary to minimize the damage!--Bill McKibben author of The End of Nature Imagining an unwanted future is something most people aren't willing to do. This book is full of quiet heroes who help communities in the Southeast imagine a future they do want. It isn't easy, but it's crucial.--Edward Maibach Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University In Sudden Spring, author Rick Van Noy provides a gripping account of the threat that climate change already poses to the American south. But this a tale of hope as well. Van Noy describes how the South can still rise to the challenge.--Michael Mann distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State

All the world will feel the effects of our rapidly changing climate, of course--and those spots that we cherish most for their sense of place, their long-standing in our hearts, will be the hardest to watch change. Perhaps these fine reflections will spur us to some of the action necessary to minimize the damage!--Bill McKibben author of The End of Nature Imagining an unwanted future is something most people aren't willing to do. This book is full of quiet heroes who help communities in the Southeast imagine a future they do want. It isn't easy, but it's crucial.--Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University This on-the-ground research lends an exceptional intimacy to the book, bringing the reader close to some of the most fragile portions of the country. . . . The book depoliticizes climate change, considering instead what communities are doing to cope with drastically changing conditions. It still acknowledges the political debate, but larger issues of resilience, adaptation, and survival are at the heart of Sudden Spring, an eloquent narrative about what has become the most important challenge of our time.--Barry Silverstein Foreword Reviews Sudden Spring is an urgent, important book. Stroll down a southeastern beach in the United States and climate change will no longer be a theoretical, distant problem. Stranded houses jut out of the sand like the Statue of Liberty at the end of the original Planet of the Apes. The ocean is rising, and this isn't hard to see on the Outer Banks or in Miami or Norfolk, Virginia, where the military, at least, are no longer climate skeptics. Rick Van Noy has done us all a service by issuing this wake-up call. As he points out, humans have not evolved to face long-term threats, but as this book makes clear, we need to adapt sooner rather than later. Our survival depends on it.--David Gessner author of All the Wild That Remains In Sudden Spring, author Rick Van Noy provides a gripping account of the threat that climate change already poses to the American South. But this a tale of hope as well. Van Noy describes how the South can still rise to the challenge.--Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State

Author Information

Rick Van Noy is a Professor of English at Radford University. He is the author of Surveying the Interior and A Natural Sense of Wonder.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available