The Resource Body count : how climate change is killing us, Paddy Manning
Body count : how climate change is killing us, Paddy Manning
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- Summary
- When the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn't start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change - from heat, flood, disease, smoke. And now, pandemic. In this detailed, considered, compassionate book, Paddy Manning paints us the big picture. He revisits some headline events which might have faded in our memory - the Brisbane Floods of 2011; Melbourne's thunderstorm asthma fatalities of 2016 - and brings to our attention less well-publicised killers: the soil-borne diseases that amplify after a flood; the fact that heat itself has killed more people than all other catastrophes put together. In each case, he has interviewed scientists to explore the link to climate change and asks how - indeed, whether - we can better prepare ourselves in the future. Most importantly, Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims, creating a monument to those we have already lost. Donna Rice and her 13-year-old son Jordan. Alison Tenner. The Buchanan family. These are stories of humans at their most vulnerable, and also often at their best. In extremis, people often act to save their loved ones above themselves. As Body Count shows, we are now all in extremis, and it is time to act. Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells these stories of tragedy and loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxvi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Prologue: the Black Summer
- Introduction: from warming to warning
- Fire
- Heat
- Flood
- Disease
- Breakdown
- Hope
- Epilogue: an Age of Pandemics
- Isbn
- 9781925456752
- Label
- Body count : how climate change is killing us
- Title
- Body count
- Title remainder
- how climate change is killing us
- Statement of responsibility
- Paddy Manning
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- How climate change is killing us
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- Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Australia
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Australia
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- trueDisaster victims
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- trueAustralia
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- trueAustralian
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- trueWildfires
- trueDiseases
- trueDroughts
- trueEnvironmental policy
- trueEnvironmental policy -- Australia
- trueFloods
- trueGlobal environmental change
- trueGlobal temperature changes
- trueGlobal warming
- trueHeat waves (Meteorology)
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Australia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn't start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying from the plagues of climate change - from heat, flood, disease, smoke. And now, pandemic. In this detailed, considered, compassionate book, Paddy Manning paints us the big picture. He revisits some headline events which might have faded in our memory - the Brisbane Floods of 2011; Melbourne's thunderstorm asthma fatalities of 2016 - and brings to our attention less well-publicised killers: the soil-borne diseases that amplify after a flood; the fact that heat itself has killed more people than all other catastrophes put together. In each case, he has interviewed scientists to explore the link to climate change and asks how - indeed, whether - we can better prepare ourselves in the future. Most importantly, Manning has spoken to survivors and the families of victims, creating a monument to those we have already lost. Donna Rice and her 13-year-old son Jordan. Alison Tenner. The Buchanan family. These are stories of humans at their most vulnerable, and also often at their best. In extremis, people often act to save their loved ones above themselves. As Body Count shows, we are now all in extremis, and it is time to act. Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells these stories of tragedy and loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning
- Award
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, 2021.
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- 10872994
- Cataloging source
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- Manning, Paddy
- Dewey number
- 363.738740994
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- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Climatic changes
- Death
- Natural disasters
- Human beings
- Environmental policy
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes
- Disaster victims
- Australia
- Target audience
- general
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- how climate change is killing us
- Label
- Body count : how climate change is killing us, Paddy Manning
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 293-312)
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- Prologue: the Black Summer -- Introduction: from warming to warning -- Fire -- Heat -- Flood -- Disease -- Breakdown -- Hope -- Epilogue: an Age of Pandemics
- Control code
- 000067445475
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925456752
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- colour illustrations, portraits
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- Stock number
- NLApp89716
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1142893804
- Label
- Body count : how climate change is killing us, Paddy Manning
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 293-312)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- txt
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- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: the Black Summer -- Introduction: from warming to warning -- Fire -- Heat -- Flood -- Disease -- Breakdown -- Hope -- Epilogue: an Age of Pandemics
- Control code
- 000067445475
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925456752
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, portraits
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Stock number
- NLApp89716
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1142893804
Subject
- trueClimate change
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- trueClimate change -- Social aspects
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- Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Australia
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Australia
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- trueAustralia
- Australia -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century
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- trueHumans -- Effect of environment on
- trueNatural disasters
- Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Australia
- trueWildfires
- trueDiseases
- trueDroughts
- trueEnvironmental policy
- trueEnvironmental policy -- Australia
- trueFloods
- trueGlobal environmental change
- trueGlobal temperature changes
- trueGlobal warming
- trueHeat waves (Meteorology)
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Australia
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