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  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: HarperNorth
  • ISBN-10: 0008806543
  • ISBN-13: 9780008806545
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 240x159x30 mm, kaal: 500 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: HarperNorth
  • ISBN-10: 0008806543
  • ISBN-13: 9780008806545
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Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.







A warning and a rallying-cry.





'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris Packham





A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why.





The Fate of the World is a 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, putting contemporary global heating in the context of geological epochs and periods to reveal what past climate change can tell us about our planets future. It highlights with unflinching realism how whats happening now compares with what happened in deep time and explains the devastating impacts that are now more likely than not.



Renowned expert Bill McGuire reveals that our climate already all but matches that of the last interglacial period the Eemian when sea levels were 6 to 9 metres higher, and that it is on track to mimic the Pliocene period, when giant camels roamed the Arctic, as soon as the 2030s. Later this century, parts of our world could be experiencing double-figure temperature rises as we continue to wind the clock back 50 million years in a couple of centuries and without urgent preparation, our civilization is very poorly placed to survive.



Notwithstanding the urgency of the message, this is a hopeful book. The future will be forbidding, but every tonne of carbon we do not emit will make it less so. We can all do our bit, and we must.



If you read just one book on the climate crisis, make it this one.

Arvustused

'This is the book that brings the frog to the boil. Earths catastrophes and their stark consequences are explained in sharp truths and it bloody hurts. Read, learn, think and change our future history. Chris Packham



The human story is the story of the Earth, and the next chapter will be written by us. Bill McGuire places our predicament in the context of deep time, revealing how as architects of our fate we must take emergency action to avoid disaster. Tony Juniper CBE



'If you think the climate crisis is peripheral to your life, I dare you to read this book.' Mike Berners-Lee



'Climate science runs deep and wide. It fights fair, stripping away ignorance, confusion and lies, and it points the way to the best possible future humankind can still expect. Bill McGuire is an authoritative and mightily inspiring contributor to that collective scientific endeavour, making The Fate of the World an indispensable primer for our troubled times.' Jonathon Porritt



If you choose to read this book, you need to be prepared for grim truths and tough prognoses, or feel part of some larger wave of responsive action. If you are truly ready it might just set you free. Rupert Read



'I can think of very few climate scientists who combine their expertise with the courage to rage against the obscene criminality that is being imposed upon our children. Bill McGuire is one of them, as his book brilliantly exemplifies.' Roger Hallam



'A stark, science-led warning: Professor Bill McGuire lays bare a climate crisis shaped by deep time and our choices now.' Bylines Cymru





Praise for Hothouse Earth





'One of the most chilling books I've read this year. Definitive.' Anthony Horowitz

Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London, a co-director of the New Weather Institute, and a patron of Scientists for Global Responsibility. He was a member of SAGE, the Science Advisory Group in Emergencies. He was also a member of the UK Government Natural Hazard Working Group. He lives in the Peak District.