This is the way the world ends : how droughts and die-offs, heat waves and hurricanes are converging on America /
The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will, our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia...
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: harbinger
- The truth. Einstein's warning ; Species on the move ; The third pole ; Collapse of the pollinators ; The "evil twin"
- The ecosystems. Regime shift ; The sahel ; Ocean colonies
- The impacts. Dome of heat ; Category 6 ; The displaced ; Vanishing icons
- The geopolitics. Seeing around corners ; The water economy ; Saudi Arabia ; Yemen ; Syria ; Jordan ; Somalia ; Pakistan ; India ; China ; Environmental diplomacy
- The blueprint. A path forward ; Disruption ; Waking the behemoths ; The anvil
- The future. Political morality ; Our next gate.