Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human exis
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This is what it means to live beyond the “end of nature”—that it is human action that will determine the climate of the future, not systems beyond our control. And it’s why, despite the unmistakable clarity of the predictive science, all of the tentative sketches of climate scenarios that appear in this book are so oppressively caveated with possib
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YOU’VE JUST EXPLORED THREE POSSIBLE versions of the year 2033: Trash becomes illegal, virtually overnight—and garbage removal as we know it is officially over. The richest countries on earth embark on a ten-year project to carefully, thoughtfully, and equitably move one billion people across borders to climate-safer homes. A global vote approves an
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