One of Kirkus Reviews \' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call Home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of Home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live.
The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a Home in the twenty-first century..
Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis.
An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes.
An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters.
A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America\'s most historic cities from rising seas.
A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires.
She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances.
In At Home on an Unruly Planet , science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home.
One of Kirkus Reviews \' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call Home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of Home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live
