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The Attacking Ocean
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
by Brian M. Fagan
The Attacking Ocean – Read More - Format: hardcover, 288 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
- Release date: June 11, 2013
- Language: english
- ISBN: 9781608196920 (1608196925)
- Genres: science, history, environment, nature, anthropology, geology
- Author: Brian M. Fagan
- First published: June 6, 2013
About The Book
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.
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