Bibliograph

The Collapse of Western Civilization, a View from the Future

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The Collapse of Western Civilization, a View from the Future

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Collapse of Western Civilization

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

879946504

Sub title

a View from the Future

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The coming of the penumbral age -- The frenzy of fossil fuels -- Market failure -- Epilogue

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