The a story of the future Wallace-Wells, David 1982- creator text enk 2019 monographic eng

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320 pages ; 20 cm 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. I. Cascades II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Disasters no longer natural ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems" III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world IV. The anthropic principle Ages 12 and up Delacorte Press juvenile David Wallace-Wells. "Penguin Environment"--Page 4 of cover Edition statement from Afterword, page 229 First published as: The uninhabitable earth : life after warming. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019] Includes bibliographical references and index. Nature Effect of human beings on Juvenile literature Global warming Social aspects Juvenile literature Climatic changes Social aspects Juvenile literature Global environmental change Social aspects Juvenile literature Environmental degradation Social aspects Juvenile literature Hombres Influencia sobre la naturaleza Calentamiento global Aspectos sociales Cambios climáticos Aspectos sociales Cambio ambiental global Aspectos sociales Degradación ambiental Aspectos sociales GF 75 W195u 2019 304.2/8 Wallace-Wells, David. New York : Delacorte Press, 2023 Original trade paperback. (DLC) 2023027240 9780141988870 0141988878 2023027239 DLC 230616 20240606130542.0 23190037 eng