The uninhabitable earth: life after warming 9780525576709, 0525576703, 9780221039850, 0221039856

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, y

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The uninhabitable earth: life after warming
 9780525576709, 0525576703, 9780221039850, 0221039856

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.

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