I'm with the bears: [short stories from a damaged planet] (Short stories)

A stellar line-up of fiction writers envision the terrors of impending climate change.The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial.

The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to the deterioration of our global habitat.

From T. C. Boyle s account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel RichAAAa s vision of a near future where oil sells for $800 a barrelAAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAAAAaAaAAthese ten provocative, occasionally chilling, sometimes satirical stories bring a human reality to disasters of inhuman proportions.Royalties from IAAAa m With the Bears will go to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.