The NY Times just published a book review on The Uninhabitable Earth, which is apparently an annotate version of the single most frequently downloaded story in the history of New York Magazine.
Agree with me or not on any issue I've ever posted here, I don't think anyone can accuse me of hyperbole or fear mongering.
The 7,000 word story is positively terrifying.
It is well written, and posits that my 5 and 2 year old granddaughters will be part of a mass extinction event. So much for clean beautiful Kentucky coal.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/...or-humans.html
Some of the science indicates that we're already too late to change the outcome. It is a global version of the "tragedy of the commons." I feel helpless in the face of the size of the problem. Damn.
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