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class="entry-headline-text">New book – ‘Our Final Warning: Six
Degrees of Climate Emergency’</span></h1>
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<span class="post-info-date post_date date updated">30 June 2020</span>
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<p><em>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.</em></p>
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<p>From the jacket:</p>
<p><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>This book must not be ignored. It really is our final
warning.</em></p>
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