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domestic crises, endure new rounds of terrorist activity, or wage war
against each other over basic natural resources, food supplies, population
pressures, or rights of migration, one may find one's own nation at war as
well—or suffering the economic or political consequences of that unrest
in other ways, even potentially within its own borders.
To imagine that we can shield ourselves from all these trends by
retreating to living spaces, turning on the air conditioner, and enter-
taining ourselves in some fashion simply ignores reality. In one way or
another, the transformation of the planet will seep through those walls.
We may ind ourselves incensed at the result and might even muter:
why
didn't they
tell
me it would be like this?
There really is no evading it: climate change is well under way, caused
by human beings,
and it will happen to you
.
Notes
14. Robert P. Semple, Jr., “Remember Kyoto? Most Nations Don't,”
New York
Times
, December 3, 2011, htp://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/
sunday/remember-kyoto-most-nations-dont.html?_r=0.
15. Fred Pearce,
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in
Climate Change
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2007).
16. See Pearce,
With Speed and Violence
, 91-98.
17.
Thomas Blunier, “'Frozen' Methane Escapes from the Sea Floor,”
Science
, volume 288, number 5463 (April 7, 2000), 68-69. doi:10.1126/
science.288.5463.68.
18. Mark Lynas,
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hoter Planet
(Washington, D.C.:
National Geographic 2008), 220-228.
19. Kevin Schaefer and others, “Amount and timing of permafrost carbon release
in response to climate warming,”
Tellus B
, volume 63, Issue 2 (April 2011),
165-180, doi:10.1111/j.160 0 - 0889.2011.0 0527.x .
20. On these droughts see Simon L. Lewis and others, “The 2010 Amazon
Drought,”
Science
, volume 331, number 6017 (February 4, 2011), 554,
doi:10.1126/science.1200807; on the only partial recovery of the rainforest
from the 2005 drought by the 2010 drought see Yadvinder Malhi and
others, “Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
,
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