Green Reads with Park City Community Foundations’ Climate Fund: The Last Winter
February 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Event Details
This event is part of Winterfest. Learn more and see all Winterfest events here: https://parkcitylibrary.org/celebrate-winterfest-february-9-10/ .
The Park City Library encourages those interested in learning more about sustainability and environmental awareness at home and in our community to explore more with Green Reads. Every season, the Library selects a book to read and discuss those topics together. Don’t have the time to read the book? No worries – there is a recommended podcast and article to read instead.
Our winter book, with Park City Community Foundations’ Climate Fund, is The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World by Porter Fox.
If you are curious, but don’t have time to read a book… read the article: How Plastics Are Poisoning Us | The New Yorker.
If you only have 30 minutes and prefer to listen… listen to this podcast from The Prairie Homestead: Season 12: Episode 7: A Year of No Garbage… (Really!).
Book synopsis:
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.
In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere’s snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything—from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world.
This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys—each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox’s own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine.
Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last Winter will showcase a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change—that may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.
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Thank you to the Friends of the Park City Library for sponsoring Winterfest. The Friends of the Park City Library is a non-profit volunteer group dedicated to supporting the Library. Consider becoming a member and shopping at their used book sales, like the one during Winterfest, to help support funding needs for the Friends of the Library.
Date: February 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Venue
- Park City Library
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1255 Park Avenue
Park City, Utah 84060 + Google Map