Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89).
Contents
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.