[D66] Combidoom: Our Final Warning

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  New book – ‘Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’

Mark Lynas <https://www.marklynas.org/author/mark-lynas/> 30 June 2020 2 
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/It’s here! After three years of hard labour, the new Six Degrees is 
finally launched. Thanks to HarperCollins for publishing on both sides 
of the Atlantic! For those asking – yes, this is a fully original 
rewrite of the 2007 original Six Degrees… if you’re wondering whether 
the projections made back then still stand today, read on./


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 From the jacket:

*Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our 
civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only 
looking worse.*

We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? 
Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? 
What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the 
very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set 
for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, 
he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing 
climate catastrophe.

At one degree – the world we are already living in – vast wildfires 
scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate 
coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral 
reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out 
of food, threatening millions with starvation. At four, large areas of 
the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and 
turning billions into climate refugees. At five, the planet is warmer 
than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of 
unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of 
the end of all life on Earth.

These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running 
out. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are 
to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. If we fail, then we risk 
crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of 
humanity’s control.

/This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning./



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