The fate of the world : a history and future of the climate crisis
McGuire, Bill2026
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'The Fate of the World' is a 4.6 billion-year history of the earth, which shows the deep roots of our current climate crisis. It puts contemporary global heating in the context of millennia of global history to seek out what past climate change can tell us about our future climate. It shows how what's happening to our climate now compares with what happened in the geological past. McGuire reveals that our climate already matches that of the last interglacial period - the Eemian - when sea levels were 6 to 9m higher, and is on track to mimic the Pliocene climate as soon as the 2030s, and the early Eocene hothouse later this century. We are rapidly rewinding the climate back 50 million years in a couple of centuries - and without urgent preparation, our civilization is very poorly placed to survive.
Main title:
Author:
McGuire, Bill, author
Imprint:
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2026.
Collation:
288 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780008806545 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
363.7
Language:
English
BRN:
9097906