What is science fiction today will someday be the history of real, live people - billions of them. This science-historical fantasy is thought-provoking, but is it prescient? Scientific American Packed with salient science, smart speculation and flashes of mordant humour. It would be apt if readers took action to keep it from, you know, happening. The scenario portrayed in this valuable little book is scarily possible. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History It should be required reading for anyone who works-or hopes to-in Washington. Provocative and grimly fascinating, The Collapse of Western Civilization offers a glimpse into a future that, with farsighted leadership, still might be avoided. Auden Schendler, Vice President, Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company From that gift, perhaps we can summon the will to act today. And that's the great service of this short but brilliant parable: it creates bipartisan empathy for our future selves. #The fall and decline of race into space free#But global warming also threatens free marketeers, because unabated, it guarantees big government intervention. Yes, climate change will be a nightmare for environmentalists. Regret, Oreskes and Conway argue, is an equal-opportunity employer. Timothy Wirth, vice chairman, United Nations Foundation, and former U.S. Read this book, heed its warning, and perhaps we can avoid its dire predictions. Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman, 2312, Science In the Capital, and the Mars trilogyĪ chilling view of what our history could be. Witty in its details and disturbing in its plausibility, this is an account of the Long Emergency we're entering that you will not soon forget. Oreskes and Conway's startling and all-too-plausible history of the century to come is in the spirit of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley and all the writers who have turned to prophecy in the attempt to ward off an oncoming disaster. Mann, director, Penn State Earth System Science Center, and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.Ī much-needed antidote to the "AGENDA 21" nonsense promulgated by Glenn Beck and the far right, Oreskes and Conway provide us with a glimpse of the dystopian future we may ACTUALLY face should we fail to heed the warning of the world's scientists regarding the looming climate change crisis. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment-the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies-failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable.
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