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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.
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