Table of Contents
The Climate Pandemic
How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival
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- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Climate Pandemic, a Super-Wicked Problem
- II. The Carbon Contagion
- Carbon-Fevered Planet
- Fossil Fools
- Mounting Methane
- Bankrolling the Contagion
- Decarbonization Delusion
- Climate Monsters
- Clathrate Gun
- Permafrost Bomb
- Peat Megafires
- Soils Respiring
- III. Plague on the Environment
- Six Degrees to Termination
- Inexorable Melt
- Mass Extinction
- Lethal Earth
- Hellscape Earth
- Megadrought Era
- "Global Wildfire Crisis"
- Ghost Forests
- Superstormy Weather
- Sea Change
- Heating Soup
- Oxygen-Starved Waters
- Acidified Waters
- Flood Warning
- Ravaged Shores
- Dying Ocean
- Ruining AMOC
- IV. Viral Human Consequences
- Alien Earth
- Toxic Earth
- Diseased Earth
- Epidemic of Hunger
- Population Metastasis
- Environmental Exodus
- Global UnSecurity
- Systemic Collapse
- Climate War Outbreak
- V. The Epidemiology of Society’s Failure
- Why the Media Failed
- Why the Scientists Failed
- Why the Environmentalists Failed
- Why the Corporations Failed
- Why the Politicians Failed
- Why We Failed
- Co-infection by De-nihilism
- The False Hope Nostrum
- VI. Grasping at Climate Panaceas
- Paris Agreement: Blind and Toothless
- Renewable Energy Hype
- Carbon Capture Snake Oil
- Geoengineering Quackery
- Nuclear Powerless
- Energy Inefficiency
- Fossilized Transportation
- Carbonized Farming
- VII Climate Pandemic Endpoint?
- Alarm of the Anthropocene
- Our Comfortable Extinction
- Palliate the Planet
- Appendix 1: A history of neglected climate coverage
- Appendix 2. Major print media published de-nihilist opinion
- Appendix 3. As if that weren't enough. . .