The Collapse of Western Civilization : a View from the Future

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Label

The Collapse of Western Civilization : a View from the Future

Title remainder

a View from the Future

Creator

• Oreskes, Naomi

Contributor

• Conway, Erik M

Subject

• Civilization, Western
• Civilization, Western -- 21st century
• Civilization, Western -- Forecasting
• Civilization, Western -- Forecasting
• Electronic books
• Forecasts
• HISTORY -- World
• Progress -- Forecasting
• 2000 - 2099
• Science and civilization
• Science and civilization
• Twenty-first century
• Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
• Progress -- Forecasting

Genre

• Forecasts
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The year is 2393, and a senior scholar of the Second People's Republic of China presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment, the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies, entered into a Penumbral period in the early decades of the twenty-first century, a time when sound science and rational discourse about global change were prohibited and clear warnings of climate catastrophe were ignored. What ensues when soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, drought, and mass migrations disrupt the global governmental and

Cataloging source

MHW

Dewey number

909/.09821

Index

no index present

LC call number

CB158

LC item number

.O64 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries