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Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change ReviewI read this book shortly after the very similar Down to the Wire (by David Orr) and found it slightly less enjoyable and less well written. This may be partly because the latter was so impressive. These books belong to an altogether new genre, the post-global-warming book. Years ago there were none, now it looks like they're proliferating. Clearly the warnings from science have been getting more and more panicked in conjunction with popular opinion becoming more and more blase.
The author takes it as given that the scientific consensus is correct, and follows through on the conclusions we are led to. Current estimates are in the range of 4 degree warming likely by 2100, which is of course quite devastating. (Particularly after the Copenhagen failure I think 4 is becoming the 'safe' bet.) In the beginning he outlines why he believes this will happen, why there will be little emissions cuts until many years from now. Obviously there haven't been a whole lot of carbon cuts so far. Most of the middle of the book is then given over to discussion about human nature, how our greed and our divorce from nature led us on this path. Thus he includes the obsession with economic growth and explains how this has led us to a new kind of religion or raison d'etre. It is likely we will be too caught up in this materialism to change our ways, and I think personally he's right. There are many books that have dealt with the topic of our materialistic hedonistic society addicted to endless growth in greater detail, and in fact there is a surplus in my opinion although I agree totally with what they are saying.
In the later chapters he goes on to discuss the consequences of a 4 degree rise, but very briefly, unlike the 6 degrees book which discusses it at length. A very reflective final chapter discusses the longer viewpoint about our suicidal nature, how we are to deal with it, with denial, anger, acceptance, or whatever. (In my opinion war will be a big way we will deal with it.)
So my problem with this book is mostly that it doesn't quite flow together as well as I'd expected, nor does it really dwell on the really deep philosophical ideas of what he is saying, how our species has a self-destructive nature, what it will mean thousands of years from now if only a few thousand people are left, etc. The title of the book had led me to believe that it was a bit more reflective than it in fact is.
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