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Six Degrees - Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
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Six Degrees - Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and
our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by
the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. Picture yourself a few
decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are
three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland,
rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice
sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's
drought establish a new colony on Greenland's southern tip, one of
the few inhabitable areas not already crowded with environmental
refugees. Vast pumping systems keep the water out of most of
Holland, but the residents of Bangladesh and the Nile Delta enjoy
no such protection. Meanwhile, in New York, a Category 5-plus
superstorm pushes through the narrows between Staten Island and
Brooklyn, devastating waterside areas from Long Island to
Manhattan. Pakistan, crippled by drought brought on by disappearing
Himalayan glaciers, sees 27 million farmers flee to refugee camps
in neighbouring India. Its desperate government prepares a
last-ditch attempt to increase the flow of the Indus river by
bombing half-constructed Indian dams in Kashmir. The Pakistani
president authorises the use of nuclear weapons in the case of an
Indian military counter-strike. But the biggest story of all comes
from South America, where a conflagration of truly epic proportions
has begun to consume the Amazon... Alien as it all sounds, Mark
Lynas's incredible new book is not science-fiction; nor is it
sensationalist. The title, 'Six Degrees', refers to the terrifying
possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six
degrees within the next hundred years. This is the first time we
have had a reliable picture of how the collapse of our civilisation
will unfold unless urgent action is taken. Most vitally, Lynas's
book serves to highlight the fact that the world of 2100 doesn't
have to be one of horror and chaos. With a little foresight, some
intelligent strategic planning, and a reasonable dose of good luck,
we can at least halt the catastrophic trend into which we have
fallen - but the time to act is now.
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