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**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An
epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of
non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton,
Evening Standard Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday
Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the
Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate
change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says
it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is
dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the
surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a
teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has
climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic
era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life
of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the
proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely
have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that
we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then
in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many
centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will
remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet
no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
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