Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide

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Monsters being able to transverse from Earth to the Moon through cables is just about the most ludicrous thing I have heard in a long time. It took me a while to accept that premise, as with others, like being able to access Humankind's collective memory through one human's memory. Gradual or incremental change, with a focus on economic efficiency is not adequate” write the Hothouse Earth authors. The necessary changes require a “fundamental reorientation of human values.” A confluence of desiccating drought, torrential rains and battering hail, flooding and new pests that thrive in the heat will take a massive toll on crops at a time when frequent harvest failures and climate wars will mean an erratic and unreliable supply from overseas. We have already seen price hikes and gaps on supermarket shelves as a consequence of the Ukraine conflict. Climate breakdown will bring far worse. One study predicts that by 2050 the world will need half as much food again, while crop yields could be down by as much as 30%. This is nothing less than a recipe for widespread hunger, social unrest and civil strife, and the UK is unlikely to be immune. The bottom line is that 1.5°C is dead in the water. As if to underline the point, the latest findings from the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show that the global average sea surface temperature hit a record high of 21.1°C on 1 April. Estimates vary significantly, but there could be anywhere between 250 million – 2 billion climate refugees within the next 80 years.

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A wonderfully imagined fantasy world with shit characters and an excruciatingly boring plot. I didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to but it's got a pretty good rep so it might be worth your time. Among the records broken during the book’s editing was the announcement that a temperature of 40.3C was reached in east England on 19 July, the highest ever recorded in the UK. (The country’s previous hottest temperature, 38.7C, was in Cambridge in 2019.) And that grand scheme, once revealed, is what makes the novel worthy of its own chapter in that trillion year spree: Literally. Also - the earth doesn't spin on it's axis anymore is tidally attached to the sun so that one half is perpetual day and the other perpetual night. Also, there are HUUUUGE spiders that spin webs between earth and the moon. o_O I kid you not.Kevin Anderson describes “an endemic bias” among those building emission scenarios, and warns that “the modelling community is actually self-censoring its research focus to conform to the dominant political and economic paradigm.”

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This fall, fifteen-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg refused to go to school and instead staged a climate protest at the Swedish parliament. “Facts don’t matter any more,” Thunberg said. “Politicians aren’t listening to the scientists, so why should I learn?” Her protest has attracted support throughout Sweden after a summer of record heat and wildfires. The morel – Sapient fungus; forms symbiotic relationships with other lifeforms and enhances their intelligence. The plot was.... uhhh...there was no plot! Or, at least there didn't seem to be for over half of the book (more on that later); just a bunch of fairy-sized proto-humans running around trying to survive. To have a hardy and evolved fungus drop upon you in the middle of the jungle to give you heightened intelligence, you'd think that would be a good thing, right? It was the Glasgow COP26 climate conference in November 2021 that set me thinking along these lines. Attending the event was a frustrating business. All the talk was of staying this side of 1.5°C, when it was perfectly apparent that this wasn’t going to happen. To have any chance, emissions would need to fall by 50 percent or so by 2030, and although possible in theory, in the real world there was no sign of adequate action being taken. The corollary of this is that we will need to adapt to that degree of climate breakdown that is inevitable, while – at the same – time, slashing emissions as rapidly as possible, to prevent things being even worse.

In 2015, many politicians and environmentalists praised the Paris Climate Accord, intended to hold Earth’s warming under 2°C with national “pledges” to reduce carbon emissions. However, the Hothouse Earth report notes that the Paris Accord “is almost devoid of substantive language,” is not binding, and that “national interests and lowest-common-denominator politics,” have undermined the promises. Originally Hothouse consisted of 5 short stories serialised in a magazine and eventually published as a whole. These 5 short stories were collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for short fiction. and plants have developed into the dominant “Kingdom” on Earth. *** Side note: I wanted to just say “species” rather then "Kingdom" but then I was sure some science “troll nerd” with an overactive sense of self would take issue with my review for using improper jargon, forcing me to call him an Asshat and posting his picture all over goodreads.... Rating this I am torn between giving it a 4 (I really like it) and 5 (It was AMAZING)... it it definitely a 4 for me... but falls just a bit short of a 5. It was AMAZING in the purely fantastically mind boggling imaginative sense... but a bit too fantastic maybe (plus I should mention the devolved dialogue of some of the devolved specie does grate a bit after awhile). So... a 4.5? Great herder, we see you since you come. We Tummy-tree chaps are seeing your size. So know you will soon love to kill us when you go up from playing the sandwich game along with your lady in the leaves. We clever chaps are no fools, and not fools are clever to make glad for you. All the Tummy-men have no feeding and pray you give us feeding because we have no mummy Tummy-feeding--"

hothouse, but one day 40C The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C

Although it came out in the sixties, this book has an even older-school sci-fi tone. It focuses on big ideas and world-building and leaves the characters pretty bare. Some characters had really annoying YA-ish - well, bad YA-ish - names that grated on my nerves to NO END, like, Poyly and Veggy (which made me constantly axe myself: Veggie as in veg·e·ta·ble? or more like as if you put a V in front of egg, throwing a Y on the end of it? Arrrghhh! Was soll ich sagen. Die Kürzung hat dieser Geschichte definitiv gut getan. Da wurde sehr viel Ballast zugunsten der Lesbarkeit gestrichen.Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions,” Michael R. Raupach, Gregg Marland, Philippe Ciais, Corinne Le Quéré, Josep Canadell, Gernot Klepper, and Christopher Field; PNAS, 2007