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The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass…

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What if we get it wrong? What if the scale and pace of our collective measures to address climate destabilisation and the biodiversity crisis remain insufficient?

Oreskes and Conway provide the imagined view of a historian of the “Second People's Republic of China” from 2393. His account describes how the political and economic elites of the early decades of the twenty-first century ignored or dismissed the clear warnings of climate catastrophe.

Soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, drought, and mass migrations resulted in “The Great Collapse of 2093”. Three centuries later as the world emerges from the “Penumbral Age’ it is…

Talk about a shift in perspective! In the Collapse of Western Civilization, the year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. A scholar looks back in time on all that went ignored for decades based upon what we already know today about climate change, its causes, and potential solutions. In science-based fiction, we get a glimpse into the “Great Collapse of 2093,” triggered by soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought; it is the collapse of Western civilization as we know it.

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