Boiling point : people in a changing climate

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Title:

Author:

Joubert, Leonie S. (Leonie Skene), 1972-

ISBN:

9781868144679

Personal Author:

Joubert, Leonie S. (Leonie Skene), 1972-

Publication Information:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, c2008.

Physical Description:

xiii, 177 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Contents:

The red sea tales -- A little bit of nothing -- On the whim of the undercurrent -- Waiting for the rains -- When the weather goes awry -- Muti queen -- Forces of nature -- One person's excess is another's empty belly -- The blessed energy crisis? -- Fact file: The nitty-gritty of climate change.

Subject Term:

Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- South Africa.

Climatic changes -- South Africa.

Global warming.

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Summary

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.