Analysis Of The Collapse Of Western Civilization
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future is a “future historian”/ science fiction book set in the early twenty-second century in a fictional region located near present day China. This third person narration recounts both real and fictional events that, in the novel, lead to the Great Collapse and Mass Migration that occurred in 2073-2093. The narrator recollects events from “the Period of the Penumbra” (1988-2093) in which current generations failed to recognize the effect humans had on the environment, therefore causing irreversible damage to the earth. By the year 2093, Western nations such as the United States and Canada, as well as Australia, most of Africa, and parts of Europe, had collapsed due to food shortages, …show more content…
The authors also give examples of ways humans can change their actions in order to decrease the rate of global warming, such as relying on renewable energy sources in order to decrease fossil fuel emissions. In the novel, the polar ice caps have melted and polar bears have become extinct. This prediction is reasonable; areas such as Greenland are experiencing higher temperatures, which results in the melting of sea ice at an alarmingly fast rate. Without sea ice, polar bears lose their habitat and they will become extinct. Although some aspects presented in the novel are hyperbolic, such as the end of civilization in the United States in the next 100 years, the authors are able to persuade readers to acknowledge the power and intensity of climate change and take action to prevent it from accelerating at the rate it is today. The exaggerations used by the authors are what makes the story effective in informing and persuading the audience; they are able to overstate their ideas in order to emphasize the urgency for change. If the authors were to have written the book from a present-day point of view and simply state facts and current events, the reader would not understand the magnitude of the effects global warming could have on our civilization in the
In this essay, the author
- Describes the collapse of western civilization: a view from the future as a futuristic science fiction book set in the early twenty-second century.
- Analyzes how the novel is a condemnatory critique in which the narrator highlights actions that people and governments around the world have taken that result in the destruction of the environment.
- Analyzes how the collapse of western civilization provides information about many existing laws and practices that are not readily known by the general public.
- Describes the collapse of western civilization: a view from the future as a futuristic science fiction book set in the early twenty-second century.
- Analyzes how the novel is a condemnatory critique in which the narrator highlights actions that people and governments around the world have taken that result in the destruction of the environment.
- Analyzes how the collapse of western civilization provides information about many existing laws and practices that are not readily known by the general public.
- Analyzes how the collapse of western civilization provides insight about the future of earth if we continue to harm the environment by burning fossil fuels and ignoring the effects of climate change.
- Explains that melting polar ice causes a positive feedback loop in the arctic, and that climate change is affecting species extinction. the collapse of western civilization predicts that by 2060, the earth will rise 4.3 degrees celsius.
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- Analyzes how dr. scranton utilizes the fear of death and war to evoke feelings of concern.
- Analyzes how scranton uses reliable sources to back up his claim while having the necessary academic background to defend his claims.
- Concludes scranton's argument is supported by logos, pathos and ethos appeals that make his claim a valid one. he challenges the future’s perpetuity, the current state of organization within society, and answers the important questions that civilization has ignored for far too long.
1252 wordsRead More - Impact of Global Warming on Speciesanalytical essayThe first part of this essay discusses what the human species has done to deal with the problem of climate change. While some improvements have been made, the problem has not been addressed aggressively enough to stop the damage. What is amazing about this is the denial of so many people that problems exist. If they do realize the risks, they are simply not taking actions to contain the damage.
In this essay, the author
- Describes palevitz, barry a., global warming: organisms feel the heat.
- Argues that the human species is not adapting well to climate change.
- Explains that rising temperatures cause worldwide genetic changes in drosophila subobscura.
- Describes palevitz, barry a., global warming: organisms feel the heat.
- Argues that the human species is not adapting well to climate change.
- Explains that rising temperatures cause worldwide genetic changes in drosophila subobscura.
- Cites hansen, andrew j, neilson, ronald p, dale, virginia h, and flather, curtis h. the national environmental health association position on global climate change.
2603 wordsRead More - Global Warming and Climate Changeopinion essayGlobal Warming, much of what does or does not happen forty years from now rests on our actions or inactions taken between now and then. The crucial question is whether we should pour all our resources into mitigation – reducing our carbon emissions. According to scientists who study the climate there are other environmental problems; “we now face a global crises in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization”.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that global warming rests on our actions or inactions taken between now and then. the crucial question is whether we should spend all our resources into mitigation — reducing our carbon emissions.
- Argues that instead of worrying about emissions, we should accept the world is going to get warmer anyway and adapt to global warming by building better flood defenses and developing drought resistant crops.
- Opines that automobiles, factories, and power plants displace an unprecedented twenty tons of carbon monoxide per person per year, but we cannot focus on this aspect of global warming alone.
- Opines that global warming rests on our actions or inactions taken between now and then. the crucial question is whether we should spend all our resources into mitigation — reducing our carbon emissions.
- Argues that instead of worrying about emissions, we should accept the world is going to get warmer anyway and adapt to global warming by building better flood defenses and developing drought resistant crops.
- Opines that automobiles, factories, and power plants displace an unprecedented twenty tons of carbon monoxide per person per year, but we cannot focus on this aspect of global warming alone.
- Explains that 75% of recent economic losses are caused by natural hazards such as wind storms, floods and droughts.
- Explains that drought cost farmers $14 billion in 2009 alone. eighty-five percent of the u.s. corn crop is affected by drought stress at some time during the growing season each year.
- Opines that we must address the massive environmental impacts of our current agricultural practices, which rival the effects of climate change.
- Opines that doubling agriculture production will require new and sustained levels of innovation, such as improvements in drought tolerance, to increase productivity of the global food supply without increasing the stress upon our natural resources.
- Opines that our goal should be that all people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences.
- Argues that we should focus on those most vulnerable to climate change by providing them with information and agricultural technologies that can enhance their productivity and reduce risk.
- Opines that genetically modified plants have many applications in the field of agriculture bringing out the best in them.
- Explains that the world's seas have risen by nearly 8 inches in the past century. warming temperatures cause the ocean waters to expand causing concern.
- Explains that the dutch society has already begun to address climate change with urgency. government officials could look to the people of the netherlands along with scientific insights.
- Concludes that the worst effects of climate change are increased drought, crop failure, and extreme weather. animals and plants have already begun to change the way they live, yet vulnerable.
1069 wordsRead More - Climate Change is a Natural Phenomenoncomparative essayClimate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today. Many questions concerning climate change’s origins and its potential affect on the globe are not fully understood and remain unanswered. What is climate change? Is climate change happening? Is it a natural cycle of the world or are there other catalysts involved such as human activity? What proof is there? What data correlations show climate change is accelerated by humans? How serious is climate change and how will it affect the future of our globe? What are we doing to address climate change? Should we really be concerned about climate change? Questions such as these have made climate change a very serious issue in today’s world and created the ideology of climatism. The issue of climate change has affected many different aspects of our lives and the world we live in. Policymaking, human activism, technologies, emission control, global warming, alternative energy sources and many other things have been greatly affected by the mania of climate change. This research report will present climate change in a light of common sense and rationality that will take a grounded discussion of the science behind climate change, global warming, human activity, and how the ideology of climatism has corrupted and driven the actions to combat climate change.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that climate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today.
- Explains that climatism is the belief that man-made greenhouse gasses such as co2 are destroying the earth's climate.
- Explains that climatism advocates seven lifestyle changes to reduce global warming and carbon emissions that will negatively affect human lifestyles.
- Explains that climate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today.
- Explains that climatism is the belief that man-made greenhouse gasses such as co2 are destroying the earth's climate.
- Explains that climatism advocates seven lifestyle changes to reduce global warming and carbon emissions that will negatively affect human lifestyles.
- Explains that the us green building council has implemented the leed green building standard to promote sustainable building practices to save money, conserve energy, reduce water consumption, improve indoor air quality and drive innovation.
- Explains that the man-made global warming theory is simple and has many holes. rising surface temperatures are a one basis for the theory behind man made global heating.
- Concludes that modern warming and global temperature rises over the last 130 years are abnormal. the medieval warm period (mwp) and the little ice age (lia) are just two of many alternating heating and cooling trends of the planets climate history.
- Explains that north atlantic climatic oscillations revealed by deep greenland ice cores.
- Explains singer, s.f., avery, d. (2007). unstoppable global warming every 1500 years.
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