This is a fiction book written like a nonfiction book told through interviews The author has degrees in geology and geochemistry You can tell that he has done a lot of research and used his own expertise in crafting this book In the note at the end he stated that all the data from 2019 and earlier is factual He has extrapolated on that data to write this novel telling what life could be like in 2084 if world governments don t start doing something to combat climate change. It took me over a month to read this 225 page book because I could only take a little bit at a time I needed to stop and think about what the author was saying and to sometimes do my own research on the side There were parts of this book that made me angry and parts that gave me chills I would only recommend this to people who believe in science and want to know about climate change Science.

This vivid terrifying and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z 2084 Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century No country and no one has remained unscathed Through interviews with scientists political leaders and citizens around the globe this riveting oral history describes in graphic detail the irreversible effects the Great Warming has had on humankind and the planet In short chapters about topics like sea level rise drought migration war and The 2084 Report brings global warming to life revealing a new reality in which Rotterdam doesn t exist Phoenix has no electricity and Canada is part of the United States From wars over limited resources to the en masse migrations of entire countries and the rising suicide rate the characters describe other issues they are confronting in the world they share with the next two generations Simultaneously fascinating and frightening The 2084 Report will inspire you to start conversations and take action The 2084 Report An Oral History of the Great WarmingAz v Legnyomaszt bb K nyve Vagy az vsz zad is ak r Sz jbar g s manipulat v v llaltan frusztr l k tet ez egy olyan fiction amit non fiction nek kell olvasni s lehet leg rettenetesen kiakadni hogy mik t rt nnek a vil gban Akarom mondani mik fognak t rt nni Illetve nem m gis mik nem t rt nnek a vil gban s emiatt mik fognak t rt nni A l nyeg hogy mind meghalunk nem sz pen v llalhatatlan ostobas gunk k vetkezt ben sz val meg is rt nk a pusztul sra De az rt r l k hogy ny lt egy csomagol smentes bolt a k zelben hogy nincs aut m s nem is lesz hogy rengeteg dolgot jrahasznos tunk a h ztart sban hogy pr b lunk valahogy lesz delegni err l a mindent beh l z fogyaszt i hull mvas tr l Na de visszakanyarodva mag hoz a k nyvh z az alap tlet el g klassz a k pzelt riportok a j v ben A tematikus fejezetek elrendez se is j l m k dik tal n csak a st lus sz raz egy kicsit s a sz madatok fullaszt ak ebben a form ban nem nagyon lehet folyamatosan olvasni a k tetet nem ad olyan lm nyt mint egy reg ny vagy ak r egy hosszabb essz n is t bbsz r sz netet tartottam igaz a kollekt v b ntudatba mer l shez se reztem minden nap el g er t magamban Science Outdoors Nature 3. 5 starsFast forward to 2084 Global Warming has made a serious impact on life on Earth In this work of fiction we hear from numerous people from around the world to form an oral history of how climate change has effected things Topics range from health impact wars lack of resources species extinction and All of it is scary stuff yet not entirely unimaginable The oral history tells of America become rule by a fascist America First party who works to remove all illegal aliens from the US in an effort to save American resources jobs for Americans We hear of cities submerged by rising seawaterocean front homes lost to the tidesmass migrations as people move to higher ground or temperate zones I loved he concept of this and feel that all of the science and projections are sound and realistic However the storytelling wasn t quite there for me This was supposed to be an oral history told from many different view points but the voice in all of the different accounts sounded the same Thank you to the publisher for the review copy Science Outdoors Nature I read this after been drawn to dystopian near futures by Paol Bacigalupi s The WindUp Girl and this book disappointed. I rate this book so poorly because it sets out to present itself as an oral history collecting the real words of real people albeit imagined in the future but it reads instead like an extended essay listing cold facts and sometimes imaginative predictions The book also suffers because the voices of all the characters are IDENTICAL EVERY CHAPTER HAS THE SAME VOICE It doesn t matter if it s a defeated Canadian governor now absorbed into the Union an inuit refugee or the former Mexican ambassador to the US they ALL have the same voice When the author does make an attempt to differentiate through a flash of accent or a single sentence but apparently deeply personal story it just comes across as amateurish. 2084 should have just been a speculative essay dispensing entirely with any sort of story wrapper Just make the scary predictions back them up with facts or projections and let folks make their own conclusions I think I m even sympathetic to the point of view of the author but seriously for much visceral connections to the one world we re destroying and the new one we re making check out Bacigalupi s Pump Six and Other Stories or WindUp Girl They will affect you . One technical note This entire Kindle eBook version is set in bold face type ALL of it Distracting and amateurish Science Outdoors Nature A nice idea perhaps but not so well executed It is supposed to be a future oral history of a severely changed climate world Many different people are giving an oral history The problem is that they all have the same sounding narrative voice Science Outdoors Nature Dieses Buch ist Dystopie und Sachbuch in einem Und you know what wer so ein Buch schreiben kann bei dem m ssen alle Alarmglocken l uten Es ist gruselig es macht einem Angst weil die Zukunft die im Buch geschildert wird die eigene werden kann Das hei t das Buch hat den absoluten Bonus an der Realit t gebaut zu sein und somit automatisch viel ansprechender als eine normale Dystopie zu sein Dieses Buch handelt wie schon bekannt von dem vorherrschenden Problem der Menschheit seit mehreren Jahrhunderten den Klimawandel James Powell m chte augenscheinlich mit der drohenden Krise ber die Fehler der Menschen aufkl ren und umweltbewussteres Handeln bei jedem einzelnen Menschen erzielen damit die Dystopie nicht zur Realit t wird Das Buch spielt also im Jahre 2084 in dem der Erz hler mehrere Menschen meist Wissenschaftler interviewt Die Fragen beziehen sich auf die Vergangenheit unsere Gegenwart also das Jahr 2020 und die erz hlerische Gegenwart also unsere Zukunft Inhaltlich liegen die Fragen ausnahmslos im Bereich der Klimaver nderung Dabei werden die Bereiche Physik Ethik Biologie und einige mehr angesprochen und besprochen Sprich die Wissenschaftler erz hlen sachlich ber Informationen die 2020 vorlagen und aus denen sich nichts gemacht wurde weshalb es Jahre sp ter immer weiter steigende Katastrophenzahlen gab Das Buch hat eine sehr wichtige Position heutzutage Es m sste Menschen wachr tteln die sich auf Regierungsbeschl ssen ausruhen und nicht daran denken wenn sie nicht beherrscht werden selbst Dinge in die Hand zu nehmen um ein Problem der Zukunft und zwar ein gro es zu verhindern Menschen sind passiv So gesehen finde ich das Buch von der Idee her wirklich genial und w rde auch darum werben weil eine solche Idee die Welt auch ver ndern kann Wenn jemand in dem Fall der Autor einen Schritt macht und die ffentlichkeit auf die Sache aufmerksam machen will dann ist er als einer von wenigen aktiv dabei das Problem zu bew ltigen Ich will aber nicht um das Buch werben weil die Idee gut die Umsetzung es jedoch nicht ist Man muss sich bei einem solchen Schritt an die ffentlichkeit zu gehen die Zielgruppe bewusst machen die man erreichen will Sind es die Wissenschaftler und Intellektuellen die viel wissen eben auch ber das Thema und sich allt glich damit auseinandersetzen Nein Aber f r genau die ist das Buch geschrieben Die eigentliche Zielgruppe sollte aber die j ngere Gesellschaft sein Die jenigen die wirklich etwas ver ndern k nnten weil sie a noch l nger leben werden und b am wenigsten als Gesamtheit auf die Klimaver nderung achten und am meisten konsumieren. Ich habe ein Problem mit der Sprache Das Buch ist in Fachsprachen und Hochdeutsch geschrieben Zwar soweit dass es die meisten verstehen werden doch die wenigsten Spa am lesen haben werden Ich selbst mit meinen 18 Jahren interessiere mich stark f r das Thema ansonsten h tte ich das Buch auch nicht lesen wollen und lese auch sehr gerne aber hatte nicht viel Spa an diesem Buch Es strengt an Und darum wird es auch nicht viele Menschen erreichen Heut zu tage wo sowieso schon zu wenig gelesen wird muss Literatur leicht und angenehm sein damit sie ankommt Und diese ist es nicht Und das bei einem so wichtigen Thema Inhaltlich ist es gut und versorgt wirklich mit vielen Informationen doch die Darstellungsform und das ist das wichtigste an allen Dingen die hat verloren Deswegen werde ich auch nicht sagen Lest dieses Buch es kl rt auf weil es das nicht wirklich tut Trotzdem m chte ich das Buch auf keinen Fall schlechteren weil die Fakten sind Realit t und das Buch erschreckt Es ist so wichtig das Menschen genau solche Dinge lesen um sich zu erinnern Neben Corona der Pr sidentschaftswahl in den USA und so vielen anderen aktuellen Krisen bleibt der Klimawandel bestehen r ckt nur immer weiter in den Hintergrund wobei er aber im gleichen Moment immer st rker stattfindet Science Outdoors Nature Okay this is 5 stars I have to explain because the quality of the book as a novel is mediocre at best Like other reviewers stated before me most of the voices of the interview partners who tell their tales in the various chapters feel the same like a summing up of facts than the voices of real people who had stuff happening to them I was listening to the audio production and here this feeling is enhanced by rather monotone reading of some of the narrators not all of them mind. But and this is a big one the content is so important that I feel it outweighs any shortcomings of the execution Powell takes the facts of global warming till end of 2019 and based upon them extrapolates the fate of humankind to the 2080ies He divides his report in thematic parts like drought sea level rising climate refugees fascism etc and has people from different countries have their say The interviews are sobering to say the least downright devastating perhaps describes it better This report is a warning call for the decade that still has the possibility to change the future An important read for anybody whether you are a science follower or a science denier The facts are there the extrapolation feels well researched and the outcomes reported are depressingly believable Science Outdoors Nature Really scary what if stories Think World War Z except the bad guys are us and our refusal to do something to control global warming Flood famine heat disease and war are all results of the rising temperatures Everyone should read this Some of it has already happened Science Outdoors Nature One word sums this book up terrifying TERRIFYING. Written by geologist Dr James Lawrence Powell this is a book of fiction but reads as non fiction Set in the year 2084 it is an oral history of the devastation wreaked upon our planet by unchecked global warming The narrator interviews different people in different areas of the world to see why we didn t do enough to save our planet what we could have done and how global warming affected everyone everywhere The book is divided into different chapters that deal clearly with areas such as melting ice rising sea levels drought fascism immigration war extinction and clean energy possibilities. One could say that this is dystopian fiction but I think we would be better off categorizing this as a red flag warning in 2020 we are still not striving to reverse the effects of the damage that our nations are creating to the environment and every year we are losing the chance to ensure that our children and grandchildren live in a world where they will thrive This is really our last chance. Just this August here in California we had a week of sustained temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit It s not difficult to imagine this becoming the norm to imagine losing power constantly not being able to grow food And so on The 2084 Report provides a pretty terrible overview of what our world will look like in 2084 and a lot of it is based on hard scientific facts If you are going into this book thinking that you will be reading a novel you may be a bit thrown off by the content It reads as an oral history and therefore as nonfiction I personally think that this is the best way to deal with this topic it is very real and very terrifying and the only way to make a change in what our next generations will face is to make it now. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review Science Outdoors Nature I had a lot of hope for this book but it was extremely disappointing It s a fantastic idea but it was handled poorly Each interviewee s story is exactly the same and told in exactly the same voice It reads like a collection of essays not a collection of varied people s stories Although I am on the same page as the author I found myself resenting how heavy handed and obvious the agenda is This would have been much better to be published as a non fiction collection of essays illustrating what possible probable outcomes await us in the future Science Outdoors Nature This is probably a 4 or 4. He served as Acting President of Oberlin President of Franklin and Marshall College President of Reed College President of the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia and President and Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History,

But I m rounding it up because I don t understand why it has such a low rating on Goodreads, Favorable comparisons to Max Brook s World War Z do not give that excellent title proper respect. You can read this thing in an afternoon easy peasy though I got bored and it took me a few weeks. 5 star book for me Outdoors Nature

The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming By James Lawrence Powell

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Dr James L Powell graduated from Berea College with a degree in Geology He holds a Ph. D in Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught Geology at Oberlin College for over 20 years: Powell currently serves as Executive Director of the National Physical Science Consortium Asteroid 1987 SH7 is named for him..