Boiling point: People in a changing climate - Softcover

Joubert, Leonie

 
9781868144679: Boiling point: People in a changing climate

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Climate change is the biggest moral problem of our time, as people who have contributed little to the pollution responsible for global warming are increasingly understood to be most vulnerable to the shifting environment around them. ""Boiling Point"" explores the lives of South Africans affected by this phenomenon: a rooibos tea farmer in the Northern Cape, a traditional fisherman on the West Coast, a farmer in the centre of the Free State's maize belt, a political refugee in Pietermaritzburg and a sangoma (traditional healer) in Limpopo mining country. These communities live on a knife-edge because of poverty and their dependence on an already capricious natural environment. ""Boiling Point"" considers what might happen to them as normal weather trends are amplified in a hotter world.

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Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer. She is the author of Scorched: South Africa’s changing climate (2006), which was awarded an honorary Sunday Times/Alan Paton Award, and Boiling Point: People in a changing climate (2008), based on research funded by the 2007 Ruth First Fellowship, both published by Wits University Press.

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