Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas
Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas
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Our Final Warning

Author: Mark Lynas

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Published: 04/16/2020


Synopsis

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on August 21, 2023

8/19/23: In the light of what scientists now more generally seem to agree about, those ice shelf collapses in Greenland and Antarctica cannot be held off, no matter what we do, affecting billions in coastal regions. And the 2021 record droughts got worse in summer 2022 and 2023 and will get worse, c......more

Goodreads review by Wick on February 09, 2021

One word: YIKES. Lynas does a more than thorough job of not only providing unassailable evidence of impending climate break down, but he takes your hand and, step by step, gives you a horrific tour of what each one degree C rise will do to our world. Let's make something very clear: we are in serious......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on June 19, 2020

Traumatic but important read Heading for a 3-4C global rise in temperatures will have devastating effects. People need to understand that this is what we're currently on track for with business as usual emissions. Every human alive should therefore be made aware of what this means for themselves and......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on February 25, 2022

Highly Recommend! Very easy to read for a non-fiction book with information about climate and events in our lives that everybody should know about.......more

Goodreads review by Karel on July 03, 2022

It’s incredible how little most really know about climate change. Even when they think they are somewhat informed. The truth of consequences is hard. Which makes this a hard to read book. But the truth about the consequences is much much harder than the measures we must take. (Still running incredib......more


Quotes

‘Mark Lynas…has time-travelled into our terrifying collective future…Go with him on this breathtaking, beautifully told journey…I promise that you will come back…determined to alter the course of history.’ Naomi Klein, author of ‘Scientists predict that global temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees over the course of this century and Mark Lynas paints a chilling, degree-by-degree picture of the devastation likely to ensue unless we act now … ' ': if it makes them join the fight to stop the seemingly inexorable six degrees of warming and mass death, it might just save their lives' 'An apocalyptic primer of what to expect as the world heats up…it's sobering stuff and shaming too. ' 'The saga of how, in the world as imagined by thousands of computer-modelling studies, global warming kicks in degree by degree. ' ‘Those looking for more clarity would do well to read Our Final Warning by Mark Lynas, a campaigner controversial among his fellow environmentalists for supporting nuclear power and GM crops. , depending on what we do about it.’ 'A chilling read’