11/11/2023 0 Comments Emergency contact goodreads![]() Am I serious? Read this book or The Uninhabitable Earth or Eaarth and tell me this is crap. Some scientists think we have far less than 100 years left, given our current suicidal course. Yes, they mean it, these climate scientists, it really is happening at the level and pace that we can imagine not existing as a human race 100 years from now. We actually could reverse course in some ways, still, and are finally, decades after the screaming began, beginning to turn to renewable energy, though there will still be massive loss of life as some of the environment becomes soon unlivable. Water loss/drought, record heat, floods, epic storms, all real and not "weather has always been this way," "it's called summer," not those lies any more. ![]() I was happily surprised that the centrist Biden seemed to be exceeding everyone's expectations in taking some leadership on the #1 issue facing the planet right now, though he has also made some concessions, some contradictory moves, too. But I think most people are either too terrified or have their heads in the media-obscured sand. My fantasy is that everyone reads this book and we actually are able to take on the corporate establishment and their political lackeys and we save the human race on the planet. ![]() So no one wants to read books about cancer or climate change, it seems. This new edition of Six Degrees has another level of doom to it. Ĩ/9/21: The most recent IPCC report, 3,500 pages, all by the leading climate scientists on the planet (unless you are counting FOX News and Breitbart, and you don't want to forget them because they are the ones most people seem to listen to, the climate change denialists), but you can skim here for executive summaries:ħ/22/21 : So, I got well into this book last year and set it aside, in a kind of funk of near-despair, but now, in the middle of more cataclysmic, record-breaking heat waves in the summers of 2021-23, I report to you Lynas's warning in his first edition of this book, which I reviewed here: Vote and act in every way against Big Oil and for the planet, or for humans on the planet, though these days I seem to favor trees, birds, bees, the thousands of species we threaten with extinction. Climate denialists will have to move inland just like everyone else that can, but will there be fresh water there? Half the world within decades may? will probably? become refugees. And the 2021 record droughts got worse in summer 20 and will get worse, climate scientists agree. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity’s control.Ĩ/19/23: In the light of what scientists now more generally seem to agree about, those ice shelf collapses in Greenland and Antarctica cannot be held off, no matter what we do, affecting billions in coastal regions. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.Īt one degree – the world we are already living in – vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. ![]() But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist.
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