1 стаття – How climate change became a burning issue 2 стаття – The manipulator
Предмет:
0
Дата выполнения:
2007
Специальность:
Перекладач
Тип:
другое
Курс:
3
Язык:
укр
Объём работы:
12
Вариант:
нет
Задание:
... oples to put aside their differences and work together for a common goal. In this devilish test set by the scheming gods, can we pull through? Can we make it?
What a subject it would have made for Aeschylus or Sophocles. Instead, we have a collection of lesser artists and thinkers who struggle to connect our dependence on oil, gas and coal with the coming catastrophe of climate change that threatens to reduce our wondrous creations to rubble.
In the past few months a slew of books has been published detailing the science of climate change, the effects of climate change, the problems caused by climate change, and the solutions to climate change. They have been accompanied by a series of works on "the end of the world", loosely tied to the ecological disaster we are building up to. The parallel enthusiasm for books on "peak oil" - the theory that the world's fossil fuel resources have begun to run out or will soon do so -ranges from the learned to the crazed. A smattering of business books also promises to help entrepreneurs take advantage of all these trends - well, someone must stand to gain out of the end of everything.
Cataclysm has never been far away from the thoughts of mortals, as Simon Pearson recounts in A Brief History of The End of the World. This is an entertaining, though superficial, romp through "end-time myths" from the Flood through the early Christian mystics to the visions of nuclear Armageddon that invaded our nightmares last century. Pearson marshals a ... подробнее