This Is the Way the World Ends
How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America
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Publisher Description
Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In September 2018"
"With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at this very moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The good news? As Nesbit underscores, disaster is not preordained. The global community can meet this moment — and we must." —Senator John Kerry
A unique view of climate change glimpsed through the world's resources that are disappearing.
The world itself won’t end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we’re squarely at the tipping point.
Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected events. These are the pieces of a larger puzzle that environmental expert Jeff Nesbit puts together
Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble – right now. This Is the Way the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth’s systems unfolding across each continent. The bad news? Within two decades or so, our carbon budget will reach a point of no return.
But there’s good news. Like every significant challenge we’ve faced—from creating civilization in the shadow of the last ice age to the Industrial Revolution—we can get out of this box canyon by understanding the realities and changing the worn-out climate conversation to one that’s relevant to every person. Nesbit provides a clear blueprint for real-time, workable solutions we can tackle together.
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Combating climate change and its consequences is an urgent task because humanity needs to save not the planet but itself, declares former White House staffer Nesbit (Poison Tea) in this nonpartisan call-to-arms. He quotes scientists in fields ranging from glaciology to meteorology, showing how species essential to human agriculture, like the animals that pollinate flowers, and natural structures like the ocean's coral reefs are already reacting to climbing global temperatures. He also surveys news stories to show that rising waters and encroaching deserts are causing and will continue to cause refugee and hunger crises. With internal documents from corporations like Nestle (via WikiLeaks) revealing that many of the world's largest businesses are already planning for climate change, Nesbit has little patience for partisan bickering and scientific naysayers. "Climate change needs to stop being a political issue," he states. Solutions exist in particular, he is a proponent of establishing a carbon price of $40 per ton for energy producers but if politicians don't wake up soon, Nesbit warns, humanity's chance to mitigate the damage will be lost. This vital summary of dire facts offers no-nonsense proposals for a way forward.
