The Collapse of Western Civilization - A View from the Future (Paperback)

The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People's Republic of China 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, entered into a Penumbral period in the early decades of the twenty-first century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about global change were prohibited and clear warnings of climate catastrophe were ignored. What ensues when soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, drought, and mass migrations disrupt the global governmental and economic regimes? The Great Collapse of 2093. This work is an important title that will change how readers look at the world. Dramatizing climate change in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, this inventive, at times humorous work reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called carbon industrial complex that have turned the practice of sound science into political fodder. The authors conclude with a critique of the philosophical frameworks, most notably neo-liberalism, that do their part to hasten civilization's demise.Based on sound scholarship yet unafraid to tilt at sacred cows in both science and policy, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature. It includes a lexicon of historical and scientific terms that enriches the narrative and an interview with the authors.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	Naomi Oreskes • Erik Conway
Dimensions:	171 x 120 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	89
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-16954-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
LSN:	0-231-16954-X
Barcode:	9780231169547

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