Deep Future by Curt Stager
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet's future for millennia to come. Imagine a planet where North American and Eurasian navies are squaring off over shipping lanes through an acidified, ice-free Arctic. Centuries later, their northern descendants retreat southward as the recovering sea freezes over again. And later still, future nations plan how to avert an approaching Ice Age. by burning what remains of our fossil fuels. These are just a few of the events that are likely to befall Earth and human civilization in the next 100,000 years. And it will be the choices we make in this century that will affect that future more than those of any previous generation. We are living at the dawn of the Age of Humans; the only question is how long that age will last. Few of us have yet asked, What happens after global warming? Drawing upon the latest, groundbreaking works of a handful of climate visionaries, Curt Stager's Deep Future helps us look beyond 2100 a.d. to the next hundred millennia of life on Earth.Curt Stager is a natural science professor at New York's Paul Smith's College. In 2013, he was named the Carnegie-Case Science Professor of the Year in New York State, and he cohosts Natural Selections on North Country Public Radio. He has published in Science, National Geographic, and The New York Times, among other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312614621 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312614624 |
| Title | Deep Future |
| Author | Curt Stager |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Year published | 2011-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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