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Climate Wars (Hardcover)

by Gwynne Dyer (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications (1 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1921372222
  • ISBN-13: 978-1921372223
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 642,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The core problem with climate change is not sea level rise or biodiversity; it is food supply. We are just barely able to feed the current six-and-a-half billion people on the planet. At 2 degrees hotter, many hundreds of millions are at risk but, with global cooperation and a switch away from meat production (let people eat the grain, not cows), they wouldn't have to starve. At 5 degrees hotter, there are no good options left. What makes this a political and potentially a strategic issue is the fact that the misery will not be equally shared. As rainfall patterns shift, some countries lose most of their best croplands while others come through the change unharmed or even gain new food-growing areas in the sub-Arctic. There is a bitter irony here, for the list of beneficiaries includes most of the countries that industrialised early and caused the problem to grow to its current size. There is also huge scope for conflict, including armed conflict, because nobody will sit quietly and watch their children starve when any alternatives remain, including violent ones. Some of those watching their children starve will have the resources and technology to threaten those who still have food (but just enough food). The only way to avoid this future, if it can be avoided, is to get greenhouse gas emissions down drastically in the next 10-15 years. But making the deal that would mandate and enforce those deep cuts in emissions, especially the part of the deal that brings the 'new' industrialising countries into the effort, is ferociously difficult politically, and there is no guarantee that it will happen in time. If it doesn't, the next few generations are in for a wild ride.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic and scary, 5 May 2009
By Dr. K. Aboualfa (UK) - See all my reviews
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When is the mainstream media in the UK going to pay attention to this great author?

Ignore at your peril.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading!, 17 Feb 2009
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This review is from: Climate Wars (Hardcover)
Everybody should read this book, absolutely essential reading! The author presents several scenarios of future conflicts caused by climate change (leading to famine) which are all very plausible with terrifying consequences for the earth as we currently know it. More importantly, the author spent most of 2008 interviewing experts from around the world covering all aspects of climate change, very enlightening stuff. Finally, the book presents many potential solutions to the problems of climate change which offers hope for managing this huge problem now and into the future, if only we can negotiate the politics...
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