This is your story, today, and twenty years from now.
Climate Change and the Oceans
tells seven stories, set in seven locations around the world,
today, and twenty years from now.
Based on meticulous research, this book dramatizes
the changes coming soon to your world.
This is the book that your children
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Device: tablets, laptops, eReaderseBook Price: $9.99 eBook Price: $9.99 John Slade has done a masterful job of casting the effects of global change in diverse cultural and environmental contexts. He confronts us with the options we face—two alternative pathways that represent either optimistic or pessimistic trajectories for our future. The rigorous science—which is presented in a very clear manner—and the diversity of participants in this broad drama provide compelling accounts of what global change will mean to humanity writ large. “Climate Change and the Oceans” shows what we must do in order to direct our future down the optimistic, rather than the pessimistic, pathway. This excellent book truly “humanizes” the effects of global change—it appeals at once to our intellects and our emotions.
The book should be required reading, especially for younger readers who will control which of the two pathways represents the future of humanity and the biosphere on which we depend.
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Story Locations
1. Dekalb, Illinois, USA 8. Norwegian Sea 2. Juno Beach, Florida, USA 9. Barents Sea 3. New York City, USA 10. Guovdageaidnu, Norway 4. Copenhagen, Denmark 11. Caribbean Sea 5. Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean 12. Shanghai, China 6. Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula 13. Omaha, Nebraska, USA 7. Lofoten Islands, Norway 14. Murmansk, Russia ***
From the seven stories
Tom stood in his desert camouflage behind a barbed wire fence, staring at a vast field of corn, the young green stalks about a foot high. He had been back from Iraq for twelve days, and hadn’t yet traded his camouflage uniform for his old denim shirt and jeans. The soldier wasn’t able yet to become a farmer again, because the soldier hadn’t yet found a way home.
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Wind turbines on an Illinois farm
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Michelle rehearsed with the church choir from four to six on Saturday afternoon, working on the hymns they would sing tomorrow morning. She did not have the best voice in the choir, but her voice was full of praise, and that was all that mattered.
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Baby leatherback turtles emerging from their nest***
What determines human destiny? What determines a nation’s future? Was it economic policy, or was it something in the spirit of the people?Those were the questions that Zheng loved to think about. He was a senior now at New York University, double majoring in economics and international affairs. Born in China, raised in America, intrigued by the histories and habits of countries around the world, he saw within each nation a dynamic balance between that nation’s economic system—a carefully built engine—and the psychology of the engineer who operated that engine.
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The Big Guy
The Statue of Liberty
New York City, USA***
On Saturday, December 5, 2009, as the last of several airplanes on this long journey descended toward Copenhagen, I looked out the window at gray water below, at gray clouds above. Nothing like the deep blue ocean and pastel green lagoons back home; nothing like the billowing white clouds that drifted majestically over the ocean in their huge blue sky.
We weren’t even there yet, and I was already homesick.
And then I saw them: twenty or more tall white wind turbines, standing in a long curving row in the sea, just offshore from the coastline of Denmark. They towered over a freighter as it sailed with a long curving wake behind it toward the port of Copenhagen. I could begin to see the city: a spire sticking up above a jumble of rooftops. But my eyes went back to the white turbines now disappearing beneath the wing of the plane . . . and then reappearing behind the wing. Their blades turned slowly, majestically. They were so beautiful that they might have been sculptures, welcoming us, welcoming the whole world, to Copenhagen.
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Maldivian dhoni
Photograph courtesy of the Permanent Mission of Maldives to the United Nations, New York***
Dr. Richard Worthington operated on two levels: as a scientist who had visited Antarctica regularly for almost thirty years, studying life on that strange continent . . . and as a friend who had observed the Adélie penguins so closely, year after year—while their world became incrementally warmer, and while their ice thus melted—that he viewed the sturdy penguins with a friendship bordering on love.
Richard stood now with a group of graduate students on a shoreline of fairly level rock, in the middle of what had once been an Adélie rookery. Only a decade ago, there had been over a thousand mating pairs here, making a clamorous noise, shitting pink, flirting, fighting, and laying their eggs. Now this flat portion of the island, with gray waves lapping at it, was empty.
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Adélie penguins in Antarctica
Photograph by Dr. George Somero, Stanford University***
The next port of call, at 21:00, would be Svolvær, on the island of Austvågøy, a trading center since the early days of sails on these waters. Two of the passengers aboard the Vesterålen would disembark at Svolvær. They would catch the bus to Henningsvær, a fishing village that was Martin’s boyhood home. Inger-Marie had flown north today from Oslo to Bodø, then had boarded the Vesterålen at the wharf.
Martin met her at the top of the gangplank with the kiss of a young man who had not seen his fiancée for a very long time.
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The sun due north at midnight
over the Lofoten Islands, Norway***
The Sami have been here for a while. At the end of the most recent ice age, about ten to twelve thousand years ago, the sheet of ice that once covered Scandinavia had finally melted, revealing the rocky land. Plants began to grow upon this warming, sunlit land. Lichen grew, mosses grew, grass grew, birch trees grew, inviting mice and foxes and hawks and reindeer to move slowly north.
Close behind the reindeer came the hunters of reindeer.
On glacier-smoothed rocks just above the sea at the northern tip of Norway, near the present-day town of Alta, there are carvings of reindeer, and people, and geese, and moose, and boats. The smooth rock on which these images were carved was slowly rising up out of the sea, for the great weight of the ice was now gone. Thus the older carvings are higher up the dark face of the rock, while the more recent carvings are down near the water.
The images were carved by people who hunted reindeer, and who traveled in boats. Their language we can never know. It certainly evolved, as hunters pursued the reindeer over great stretches of land, and thus met other hunters. If this early language has been passed down, generation to generation, century after century, to the Sami today, then the words spoken this morning in church, and afterwards outside in the sunshine, were a mixture of modern adaptations and something ancient. When a Sami says hello to you, “Bures,” he is saluting you with a greeting that is probably older than Norwegian, older than English, older than Latin, older than Greek.
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Sami family and friends on Confirmation Day,
Guovdageaidnu, Norway
Cemetery cross in tundra
Guovdageaidnu, Norway***
With a doctorate in literature from Stanford University in 1974,
John Slade has taught high school and university students for 25 years
in the United States, the Caribbean, Norway, and Russia.
He believes that the first global generation in human history
is ready to build
a future based on clean energy and unprecedented international cooperation.
As we build the wind turbines and solar collectors,
as we build the global grid,
so shall we build a growing peace.
John Slade
Photograph by Liudmila Mikhaylyukova***
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