Collapse of Western Civilization A View from the Future

Name: Collapse of Western Civilization A View from the Future
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ISBN: 9780231169547

ISBN-10: 023116954X

ISBN-13: 9780231169547

Edition: 2014

Authors: Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway

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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 economic regimes? The Great Collapse of 2093. This work is an important title that will change how…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 0.47" wide x 0.67" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her essay "Beyond the Ivory Tower" was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial.

Erik M. Conway is a historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and author of High-Speed Dreams: NASA And The Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945ndash;1999 and Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918ndash;1958, also published by Johns Hopkins.