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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years Of Life On Earth (2011)

by Curt Stager(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312614624 (ISBN13: 9780312614621)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: Nearly full marks for this thoroughly researched and measured look at the long-term consequences of the Anthropocene. My only hesitation in giving this text five stars is its failure to sufficiently weight the extinction of non-human species in its discussion. Stager does discuss this extinction and gives particular attention to the plight of polar bears (which we will, in all likelihood, lose as a result of climate change), but a more heavily-weighted discussion of species loss would have encouraged greater urgency in the prose.
review 2: From time to time, he's overly anthropocentric and optimistic for my tastes, but your mileage may vary. Definitely worth the read. "By succeeding so spectacularly,crowding into every imaginable habitat and weaving ever more c... moreomplex social and economic networks, our species is now pressed so tightly against the physical limits of life on a finite planet that almost any kind of environmental disturbance is potentially disruptive." less

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