The collapse of Western civilization : a view from the future / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.

Main entry:

Oreskes, Naomi, author.

Title & Author:

The collapse of Western civilization : a view from the future / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

x, 89 pages : map ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89).
Introduction -- The coming of the penumbral age -- The frenzy of fossil fuels -- Market failure -- Epilogue.

Summary:

In 2393, a historian of the Second People's Republic of China reviews the "Penumbral Age" (1988-2093), when politicians, corporations, and scientists ignored the statistical significance of climate disaster. Carbon dioxide warming the planet, deadly summer heat and fires, and the collapse of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet lead to a second Black Death and "the Great Collapse" of the Western world.
In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature--Publisher.

ISBN:

9780231169547 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
023116954X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780231537957

Subject:

Climatic changes Fiction.
Civilization, Western Forecasting Fiction.
Civilization, Western 21st century Fiction.
Science and civilization Fiction.
Climat Changements Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Civilisation occidentale Prévision Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Civilisation occidentale 21e siècle Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Sciences et civilisation Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Pays occidentaux.
Civilisations.
Désastres naturels.
Combustibles fossiles.
Changement climatique.
Futur.
Climatic changes.
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Western Forecasting.
Progress Forecasting.
Science and civilization.
Twenty-first century.
Klimaänderung
Prognose
Untergang
Zivilisation
Framstegstanken.
Framtidsstudier.
Västerlandet.
Western civilisation
Climate change (Anthropogenic)
Science
Energy consumption
Air pollution
Forecasting
Overseas item

Form/genre:

Fiction.
Science fiction.
Forecasts.

Added entries:

Conway, Erik M., 1965- author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 292611
Call No.: BIB 236972
Status: Available

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