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Climate Wars (Hardcover)

by Gwynne Dyer (Author)

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Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Random House Canada; Second Impression edition (Oct 28 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307355837
ISBN-13: 978-0307355836
Product Dimensions: 23 x 14.8 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 558 g

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“Well written and well argued, crammed with impressive interview material and wonderful personal vignettes.”
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From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.

Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews, Climate Wars promises to be one of the most important books of the coming years.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Important, Oct 29 2008

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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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Potential for Great Calamity, Dec 3 2008

By	Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

As a journalist and expert on modern warfare, Dyer takes the issue of global warming to an entirely new level of discussion in his latest book, "Climate Wars". For him, the subject of greenhouse gas emissions is no longer limited to an academic discussion on how they may or may not impact and alter our biosphere. Rather, global warming is a reality that is starting to reconfigure some of the very delicate geopolitical balances existing in our present world. For Dyer, writing this book is an opportunity to examine some very plausible doomsday scenarios that could face us in the very near future as we wrestle with this almost unconquerable problem. The growing shortage of water in some of the world's biggest watersheds is a major focus of the writer's attention. With northern and tropical interior lands drying up in places like Western Russia, Central China, India, Central Africa and Central Canada, it is not unlikely to assume a major shift in population as people seek other sources of food. While there is indisputable evidence that the earth is heating up at a steady rate of a couple of degrees every decade, nobody knows for sure how this will all play out in its effects on relationships between countries over matters such as deteriorating air quality, water shortages, the appearances of megacities, and the shortage of food. Dyer drives these points home by setting up very scary Sci-Fi apocalyptic settings that are meant to bowl the reader over with their potential destruction. One silver lining in all Dyer's ponderings is that the world is finally beginning to address the need to be less dependent on fossil fuels and more committed to practicing better environmental sustainability. This book, though overstated in places, is a clear reminder that the noose is tightening and we no longer have the luxury of contemplating scientific models in order to ascertain the true nature of the beast. The faultlines that come with global warming have already begun to widen in key battle zones around the world. Ours is the task to now figure out how to prevent them from widening so as to erupt in a global conflagration. I was surprise to see that Dyer chooses not to mention the Middle East and its pending water shortages.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and insightful. Couldn't put it down., Mar 13 2009

By	Douglas Paulett (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is remarkable. It is gripping and shocking. As one might say about a good thriller, I couldn't put it down. The information is current and well-sourced, and the analysis was typical Gwynne Dyer: smart, insightful and at times funny. Dyer talks about enormous social, political and environmental changes that are going to occur over the next several generations as a result of climate change. Take a look around: what are we as a society focused on? Can our society plan beyond a 5 year horizon? Can we invest in our future when most of us won't be around to see the return on our investment? You may ask yourself questions like that after reading this book. I sincerely wish any remaining climate change sceptics would read at least part of this book. To quote the introduction, "The potential cost of doing too little, too late is vastly greater than the cost that might be incurred by doing more to fight global warming than turns out, at some later date, to have been strictly necessary." Please read this book. For our futures.

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