The Attacking Ocean: the Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels - Brian Fagan - Livres - Bloomsbury Press - 9781608196920 - 11 juin 2013
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The Attacking Ocean: the Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

Brian Fagan

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The Attacking Ocean: the Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.
Global sea levels stabilized about six thousand years ago except for local adjustments that caused often quite significant changes to places like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out as urban civilizations developed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth's population boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution. The threat from the oceans increased with our crowding along shores to live, fish, and trade.
Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean's climb has speeded. The sea level changes are cumulative and gradual; no one knows when they will end. The Attacking Ocean, from celebrated author Brian Fagan, tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed but little. What has changed is us, and the number of us on earth.

Médias Livres     Hardcover Book   (Livre avec dos et couverture rigide)
Validé 11 juin 2013
ISBN13 9781608196920
Éditeurs Bloomsbury Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 165 × 242 × 24 mm   ·   566 g
Langue et grammaire English  

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