The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

Writer: | Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway |
Size: | 0.92 MB |
Pages: | 105 |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Non-Fiction |
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Price: | Free |
Publish Date: | 2014 |
In the early years of the twenty-first century, when sound science and rational discourse about climate change were outlawed and clear warnings of climate catastrophe were disregarded, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies entered a Penumbral period, according to a senior scholar from the Second People's Republic of China. The year is 2393. What happens when the world's political and economic systems are upset by increasing sea levels, drought, and temperatures that are too high? the 2093 Great Collapse