{"product_id":"attacking-ocean-9781408836033","title":"The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, And Future Of Rising Sea Levels","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past fifteen thousand years the Earth has witnessed dramatic  changes in sea level. The last Ice Age, when coastlines were more than  700 feet below modern levels, saw rapid global warming, and over the  following ten millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These  changes had little impact on the humans of the day, because the earth's  population was then so small, and those few people were more mobile than  today's static populations.     Global sea levels stabilised about  five thousand years ago. As urban civilisations developed in Egypt,  Mesopotamia and South Asia the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened  out. The planet's population boomed, and by the Industrial Revolution  was five times its size two thousand years earlier. And as we crowded  shorelines to live, fish and trade, we put ourselves at ever greater  risk from the oceans.     Changes in sea level are historically cumulative and  gradual, but since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the  ocean's climb has accelerated again. From the Great Flood to Hurricane  Sandy, The Attacking Ocean explores the changing complexity of  the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, and  shows how vulnerable our modern society is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977812971686,"sku":"9781408836033","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781408836033_1.jpg?v=1656104302","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/attacking-ocean-9781408836033","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}