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Klimat - Russia in the Age of Climate Change (Hardcover)
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Klimat - Russia in the Age of Climate Change (Hardcover)
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A discerning analysis of the future effects of climate change on
Russia, the major power most dependent on the fossil fuel economy.
Russia will be one of the countries most affected by climate
change. No major power is more economically dependent on the export
of hydrocarbons; at the same time, two-thirds of Russia's territory
lies in the arctic north, where melting permafrost is already
imposing growing damage. Climate change also brings drought and
floods to Russia's south, threatening the country's agricultural
exports. Thane Gustafson predicts that, over the next thirty years,
climate change will leave a dramatic imprint on Russia. The decline
of fossil fuel use is already underway, and restrictions on
hydrocarbons will only tighten, cutting fuel prices and slashing
Russia's export revenues. Yet Russia has no substitutes for oil and
gas revenues. The country is unprepared for the worldwide
transition to renewable energy, as Russian leaders continue to
invest the national wealth in oil and gas while dismissing the
promise of post-carbon technologies. Nor has the state made efforts
to offset the direct damage that climate change will do inside the
country. Optimists point to new opportunities-higher temperatures
could increase agricultural yields, the melting of arctic ice may
open year-round shipping lanes in the far north, and Russia could
become a global nuclear-energy supplier. But the eventual
post-Putin generation of Russian leaders will nonetheless face
enormous handicaps, as their country finds itself weaker than at
any time in the preceding century. Lucid and thought-provoking,
Klimat shows how climate change is poised to alter the global
order, potentially toppling even great powers from their perches.
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