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Auteur(s) : Guzman, Andrew T.
Titre(s) : Overheated [Texte imprimé] : the human cost of climate change / Andrew T. Guzman
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-260 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : KerPlunk! and planet Earth ; A message from climate scientists ; Deeper waters
; A thirsty world ; Climate wars: a shower of sparks ; Climate change is bad for
your health ; Where do we go from here?
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 231-249
Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more
about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may
be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes the author,
will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social
and political disaster of the first order. In this book the author takes climate change
out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences.
He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and economics.
He takes as his starting point a fairly optimistic outcome in the range predicted
by scientists: a 2 degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures. Even this
modest rise would lead to catastrophic environmental and social problems. Already
we can see how it will work: The ten warmest years since 1880 have all occurred since
1998, and one estimate of the annual global death toll caused by climate change is
now 300,000. That number might rise to 500,000 by 2030. He shows in detail how climate
change is already playing out in the real world. Rising seas will swamp island nations
like Maldives; coastal food-producing regions in Bangladesh will be flooded; and millions
will be forced to migrate into cities or possibly "climate-refugee camps." Even as
seas rise, melting glaciers in the Andes and the Himalayas will deprive millions upon
millions of people of fresh water, threatening major cities and further straining
food production. Prolonged droughts in the Sahel region of Africa have already helped
produce mass violence in Darfur. This book shifts the discussion on climate change
toward its devastating impact on human societies. Two degrees Celsius seems such a
minor change. Yet it will change everything
Sujet(s) : Changements climatiques -- Aspect économique
Changements climatiques -- Société
Homme -- Effets de l'environnement
Indice(s) Dewey :
363.738 74 (23e éd.) = Gaz à effet de serre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-993387-7 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438723528
Notice n° :
FRBNF43872352
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