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An increase of as little as two degrees Celsius in average global temperature -- which is almost inevitable -- would heat global politics to boiling point and trigger massive conflicts over scarce food and water. Can our technology save us, or is it too late? Where do our best hopes for damage limitation lie? Prescient and unflinching, Climate Wars will be one of the most important books of the coming years.
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One of the world's great geopolitical analysts, Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, author, broadcaster, and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years. His column is published around the world, and he is the author of War: The Lethal Custom, Future: Tense, and The Mess They Made.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Climate Wars (Hardcover)
I'm writing this review to respond to the author of amazon's solitary negative review of this book that implies that Gwynne Dyer is nothing more than a conspiracy theorist, attempting to create a profitable hysteria:This publication is primarily based on military strategies based on projections of climate change, strategies created by credible sources like the US military and the pentagon. These Strategies (one of the more famous called, "the age of consequence") are not the work of, "a spaced out out hippy," but of militarized powers, analyzed by a renowned PhD Military and Middle Eastern History commentator - who publishes a weekly column in several international newspapers. I can appreciate any argument on the validity of sourcing, or the probability of occurrence of predicted events being quite low, or maybe even slights on the authors character that give reason for bias. I find this very useful pieces of information in a review, and quite frankly relevant. That said: discounting a work of this caliber as alarmist fiction denies that it is based largely in fact (and when it treads into speculative territory, it goes out of its way to acknowledge this) as well as it's primary use as the basis of exploring current conception.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Climate Wars (Hardcover)
While this book is rushed and repetitive in many places, it is a hugely important synthesis of scientific, military and political sources. Gwynne Dyer intersperses sci-fi type scenarios of the world in the future with scientific evidence and military analysis of the impact of climate change. He quotes extensively from interviews with a wide range of sources that are all extremely current and which might explain the lack of polish in some of the writing.The prognosis for our world is not promising but Dyer does hold out hope that a massive global effort to reduce green house gas emissions may yet happen and postpone or alter the scenarios he foresees. Reading between the lines, however, I do not feel optimistic. Nuclear war and large scale famine loom large in his entirely plausible scenarios for the next 50 years. Human suffering will be immeasurable as temperatures and sea levels rise. Pressures on governments will be intense and the world as we know it in 2008 will be vastly changed by 2050. Dyer neatly sidesteps the Israel/Palestine issue in his book but imagines a believable nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan over water. I would have liked to have read more of his ideas on the effect of global warming on Canada specifically though one can extrapolate from the ideas he puts forward indirectly. I also wonder how the current financial "crisis" will affect the capacity of nations to respond to the significantly more important environmental one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Possible scenarios that make you think,
This review is from: Climate Wars (Hardcover)
The author interviewed an impressing selection of people from ALL sectors, including not only sciences but also the economy and the military from all over the world. If some reviewer defame this book as too green or too eco, he didn't read it: It is partly build on information from the US Pentagon which is not known for its hippie-eco-attitude. Instead, the book is written rather objective, the author does not claim to predict what will happen, but what can happen if we don't manage to reduce our GHG emissions. The illustrated scenarios raise various international topics and make you think of our future and of our current behaviour in new, disturbing ways.
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