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

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New York : Columbia University Press, 2014

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Description	1 online resource (x, 89 pages) : map
Bibliography	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Civilization, Western -- Forecasting.
	Civilization, Western -- 21st century.
	Science and civilization.
	Progress -- Forecasting.
	Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
	HISTORY -- World.
	Civilization, Western. (OCoLC)fst00863138
	Civilization, Western -- Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst00863148
	Progress -- Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst01078724
	Science and civilization. (OCoLC)fst01108517
	Twenty-first century. (OCoLC)fst01159816
Chronological Term	2000 - 2099
Genre/Form	Forecasts. (OCoLC)fst01424052
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Conway, Erik M., 1965- author.
Other Form:	Print version: Oreskes, Naomi. Collapse of Western civilization. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231169547 (DLC) 2013048899 (OCoLC)863195588
ISBN	9780231537957 (electronic bk.)
	0231537956 (electronic bk.)

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