Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide

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A comprehensive tour of climate breakdown, the trouble we are heading for and the many forms it might take. Man has (d)evolved into almost fairy-like versions of ourselves, originally without wings, very light on their feet, with climbing skills that would put most orangutans, spider monkeys, and lemurs to shame. this world is in battle with itself, life against life, vegetable and animal alike, it's a frenzy of stalking and eating and killing and dying and it's all violent, all the time, here at the end of the world.

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to 3ºC, and a great deal of damage will have been done … capitalism and mainstream economics simply cannot deal with these problems. Vegetation covers the whole planet, plants are now omnivores and grown to unimaginable sizes and shapes. In 1979, the World Meteorological Organization, with full knowledge of the carbon dioxide risk, convened the first international climate conference in Geneva. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge thearrival of disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow toglobal society and economy.The main raison-d'etre of the book is to imaginatively describe these alien organisms, one after another.

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The worldbuilding is stupendous; the images are so vivid and well drawn, that one cannot but be amazed by it.In August, so disgusted with the pace of climate action by his own government, French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot resigned. It may have been written as a set of five short stories in 1961, but it’s a timeless and bizarre story of a million years in the future when the plants have completely taken over the planet, which has stopped rotating, and humans are little green creatures hustling to avoid becoming plant food.