{"product_id":"9780231169547","title":"The Collapse of Western Civilization : A View from the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Oreskes, Naomi, Conway, Erik M. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/07\/2014,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 104 pages, \u003cb\u003eMaps: \u003c\/b\u003e1,,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780231169547,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697807556652,"sku":"9780231169547","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780231169547.jpg?v=1722603611","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780231169547","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}