LEADER 03952nam 2200781 450 001 9910824367203321 005 20230124191025.0 010 $a0-231-53795-6 024 7 $a10.7312/ores16954 035 $a(CKB)3710000000113950 035 $a(EBL)1684958 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001193766 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12447903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193766 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11145982 035 $a(PQKB)10456766 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001251105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1684958 035 $a(DE-B1597)458458 035 $a(OCoLC)1002221965 035 $a(OCoLC)1004868115 035 $a(OCoLC)1011438839 035 $a(OCoLC)879946504 035 $a(OCoLC)979683186 035 $a(OCoLC)984641702 035 $a(OCoLC)987921348 035 $a(OCoLC)992483082 035 $a(OCoLC)999354057 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537957 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1684958 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10871898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL614893 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000113950 100 $a20140531h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe collapse of western civilization $ea view from the future /$fNaomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (105 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16954-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Coming of the Penumbral Age --$t2. The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels --$t3. Market Failure --$tEpilogue --$tLexicon of Archaic Terms --$tInterview with the Authors --$tNotes --$tAbout the Authors 330 $aThe year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar 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-failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization. In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called "carbon combustion complex" that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature. 606 $aCivilization, Western$xForecasting 606 $aCivilization, Western$y21st century 606 $aScience and civilization 606 $aProgress$xForecasting 606 $aTwenty-first century$vForecasts 615 0$aCivilization, Western$xForecasting. 615 0$aCivilization, Western 615 0$aScience and civilization. 615 0$aProgress$xForecasting. 615 0$aTwenty-first century 676 $a909/.09821 700 $aOreskes$b Naomi$0793631 702 $aConway$b Erik M. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824367203321 996 $aThe collapse of western civilization$94014310 997 $aUNINA