ISBN: 9798270054052 - the silent spring (9 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE SILENT SPRINGA Novel of Survival, Loss, and the End of EverythingWhen the bees die, everything else follows.Mark Sullivan is a suburban project manager with a secret-a garage full of survival supplies he hopes he'll never need. His wife Sarah, an ER nurse, thinks he's paranoid. Their daughter Emma, sixteen, is terrified by climate data no one else seems to notice. Their son Lucas, ten, just wants to save the bees with his school project.Then the pollinators collapse. Not gradually-catastrophically. Within months, global agriculture fails. Within six months, civilization begins its death spiral. The Sullivan family makes an impossible choice: stay in Denver and die with everyone else, or run for Mark's brother's cabin in the Montana wilderness.What follows is a 900-mile journey through the apocalypse. The family witnesses America's collapse in real-time-checkpoints and tolls, burning cities, refugee camps that become mass graves, convoys ambushed by desperate people turned predator. Mark kills for the first time. Emma documents everything in journals that become a testimony to humanity's end. Lucas stops speaking, his mind unable to process the horror. They lose their home, their security, pieces of their humanity.They reach the cabin. They think they're safe. They're wrong.In the mountains, they face Carter-a warlord who's transformed survival into tyranny through a protection racket that's just slavery with better branding. They fight. They kill. They become what they fled from. Emma takes a bullet. Lucas breaks completely. Daniel sacrifices himself. The family fractures under the weight of violence and impossible choices.Winter comes early. The climate is shattered. Food runs out. Medicine runs out. Hope runs out. Emma dies from an infected wound that would have been trivial before. Lucas chooses death over continued suffering. Daniel bleeds internally from wounds they can't treat. One by one, Mark and Sarah watch their family disappear into the frozen earth.But Sarah is pregnant. Against all logic, against all odds, they choose to bring new life into the dying world. They walk west through winter, starving, desperate, finding pockets of survivors who've formed something resembling community. They discover New Eden-118 people who've learned to cooperate, to organize, to hope.Hope is born-literally and figuratively. Named for the future they don't deserve but might earn. Scientists arrive with knowledge about soil recovery, about healing ecosystems, about learning from humanity's failures. The world doesn't heal overnight. The bees are gone forever. The climate is permanently broken. Billions are dead.But humanity survives. Changed. Humbled. Having learned the hardest lesson: that everything is connected, that consequences are real, that destroying your environment means destroying yourself.THE SILENT SPRING is a brutal, unflinching examination of ecological collapse and what it costs to survive when the world ends. It's about a family torn apart by catastrophe, about the impossible choices survival demands, about losing your humanity to preserve your life. But it's also about spite in the face of death, about choosing hope when hope is irrational, about the stubborn human refusal to surrender even when surrender makes sense.This is how the world ends-not with nuclear war or alien invasion, but with the death of bees and the cascade of consequences we ignored until it was too late. This is the story of the Sullivans, who survived the unsurvivable and paid for that survival with everything they loved.A testament to what we're losing. A warning about what we're risking. A story about the end-and what might come after. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE SILENT SPRINGA Novel of Survival, Loss, and the End of EverythingWhen the bees die, everything else follows.Mark Sullivan is a suburban project manager with a secret-a garage full of survival supplies he hopes he'll never need. His wife Sarah, an ER nurse, thinks he's paranoid. Their daughter Emma, sixteen, is terrified by climate data no one else seems to notice. Their son Lucas, ten, just wants to save the bees with his school project.Then the pollinators collapse. Not gradually-catastrophically. Within months, global agriculture fails. Within six months, civilization begins its death spiral. The Sullivan family makes an impossible choice: stay in Denver and die with everyone else, or run for Mark's brother's cabin in the Montana wilderness.What follows is a 900-mile journey through the apocalypse. The family witnesses America's collapse in real-time-checkpoints and tolls, burning cities, refugee camps that become mass graves, convoys ambushed by desperate people turned predator. Mark kills for the first time. Emma documents everything in journals that become a testimony to humanity's end. Lucas stops speaking, his mind unable to process the horror. They lose their home, their security, pieces of their humanity.They reach the cabin. They think they're safe. They're wrong.In the mountains, they face Carter-a warlord who's transformed survival into tyranny through a protection racket that's just slavery with better branding. They fight. They kill. They become what they fled from. Emma takes a bullet. Lucas breaks completely. Daniel sacrifices himself. The family fractures under the weight of violence and impossible choices.Winter comes early. The climate is shattered. Food runs out. Medicine runs out. Hope runs out. Emma dies from an infected wound that would have been trivial before. Lucas chooses death over continued suffering. Daniel bleeds internally from wounds they can't treat. One by one, Mark and Sarah watch their family disappear into the frozen earth.But Sarah is pregnant. Against all logic, against all odds, they choose to bring new life into the dying world. They walk west through winter, starving, desperate, finding pockets of survivors who've formed something resembling community. They discover New Eden-118 people who've learned to cooperate, to organize, to hope.Hope is born-literally and figuratively. Named for the future they don't deserve but might earn. Scientists arrive with knowledge about soil recovery, about healing ecosystems, about learning from humanity's failures. The world doesn't heal overnight. The bees are gone forever. The climate is permanently broken. Billions are dead.But humanity survives. Changed. Humbled. Having learned the hardest lesson: that everything is connected, that consequences are real, that destroying your environment means destroying yourself.THE SILENT SPRING is a brutal, unflinching examination of ecological collapse and what it costs to survive when the world ends. It's about a family torn apart by catastrophe, about the impossible choices survival demands, about losing your humanity to preserve your life. But it's also about spite in the face of death, about choosing hope when hope is irrational, about the stubborn human refusal to surrender even when surrender makes sense.This is how the world ends-not with nuclear war or alien invasion, but with the death of bees and the cascade of consequences we ignored until it was too late. This is the story of the Sullivans, who survived the unsurvivable and paid for that survival with everything they loved.A testament to what we're losing. A warning about what we're risking. A story about the end-and what might come after. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …