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Forecast

The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley

by Stephan Faris
Mel Foster
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While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and he began to wonder what current and impending—and largely unanticipated—crises such changes have in store for the world.


Forecast provides the answers.


Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. Italy has already experienced its first climate-change epidemic of a tropical disease, and malaria is gaining ground in Africa. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw political alliances around the globe, driving environmentalists into the hands of anti-immigrant groups. America's coasts are already more difficult places to live, as increasing insurance rates make the Gulf Coast and other gorgeous spots prohibitively expensive. Crops will fail in previously lush places and thrive in some formerly barren zones, altering huge industries and remaking traditions. Water scarcity in India and Pakistan have the potential to inflame the conflict in Kashmir to unprecedented levels and draw the United States into the troubles there and elsewhere.


Told through the narratives of current, past, and future events, the result of astonishingly wide travel and reporting, Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our world.

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    January 6, 2009

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      • ISBN: 9781400190584
      • File size: 203562 KB
      • Duration: 07:04:05

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 2008
      The latest communiqué from the emerging genre of traveling the world in the footsteps of climate change is an intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ecology and lifestyles. Journalist Faris shows how the genocide in Darfur has roots in desertification and may be “a canary in the coal mine, a foretaste of climatically driven political chaos,” and how the resulting emigration of Africans to Europe is causing economic pressures that are being met with fascistic movements in Italy and Britain. Locals are abandoning Key West and New Orleans due to unsustainable insurance premiums; Bangladesh is likely to be flooded out of existence; and drought may wipe out the Amazon rain forest within 70 years. Faris cites a study predicting a “world depicted by Mad Max, only hotter, with no beaches and perhaps with even more chaos.” But, depressingly, he admits that his travels researching this book released nine times an average person's annual carbon use and that “the world many have opened its eyes to climate change, but we're far from taking effective action.”

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you've managed to maintain your composure about climate change and global warming so far, this book may cause you alarm. In sober, reasonable language, the author lays out an argument that climate change is causing political and economic upheaval that is altering the planet. Narrator Mel Foster has a deep, resonant voice that clearly enunciates the book's themes with credibility and intelligence. His straightforward tone may strike some as monotonous, but he uses effective pauses and emphasis to maintain interest. Foster doesn't change his voice for the quotes in the book; rather, he lets the power and imagery of the words speak for themselves. R.I.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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