Deep future, the next 100,000 years of life on Earth, Curt Stager
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Deep future, the next 100,000 years of life on Earth, Curt Stager
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Deep future
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Curt Stager
Sub title
the next 100,000 years of life on Earth
Summary
In this extraordinary book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager shows how what we do to the environment in the next one hundred years will affect not just the next few centuries but the next 100,000 years of human existence. Most of us have accepted that our planet is warming and that humans have played the key role in causing climate change. Yet few of us realize the magnitude of what's happening. In Deep Future, Curt Stager draws on the planet's geological history to provide a view of where we may be headed long term. On the bright side, we have already put off the next ice age. But whether we will barrel ahead on a polluting path to a totally ice-free Arctic, miles of submerged coasts or an acidified ocean still remains to be decided. And that decision is ours to make. Deep Future adds a new dimension to the debate-one that will change how we think about what we are doing to our planet
Target audience
adult
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