The uninhabitable earth life after warming
"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year&...
| Main Author: | Wallace-Wells, David (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tim Duggan Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Cascades
- II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Disasters no longer natural ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems"
- III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world
- IV. The anthropic principle.