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Table of Contents DEDICATION, 4 PREFACE, 5 PART 1. RECIPE FOR DISASTER?, 9 CHAPTER 1. THE HEAT IS ON, 10 Without realizing it, we've begun to overheat Earth, mostly in a single generation. CHAPTER 2: BEHIND NATURE'S HEARTBEAT, 26 What ecosystems are and why climate change can cause them to suddenly fail. CHAPTER 3: ON OUR WATCH, 45 Red flags are going up in all of Earth's ecosystems. CHAPTER 4. WITNESSING EXTINCTION, 62 How climate can kill. CHAPTER 5. NO PLACE TO RUN TO, 75 The past's crystal ball. PART 2. NORMAL FOR NATURE, 91 CHAPTER 6. CALIFORNIA DREAMING, 92 One hundred years in Yosemite Park. CHAPTER 7. DISTURBANCE IN YELLOWSTONE, 110 Tracking ecosystems through three thousand years. CHAPTER 8. MOUNTAIN TIME IN COLORADO, 126 Global warming before people. CHAPTER 9. AFRICA ON THE EDGE, 143 Erasing ecological legacies. PART 3. UCHARTED TERRAIN, 156 CHAPTER 10. DISAPPEARING ACT, 157 Boiling down biodiversity. CHAPTER 11. LOSING THE PARTS, 175 Why global warming costs us more than individual species. CHAPTER 12. SKELETON CREW, 192 What global warming does to evolution and what that means for the future of life. CHAPTER 13. BAD COMPANY, 210 Global warming, the energy wall, and invaders. CHAPTER 14. GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE, 224 At stake is what makes us human-and life itself. How do we fix it? APPENDIX. SLOWING DOWN GLOBAL WARMING, 244 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES, 247 INDEX, 300