The Next 50 Years
by Vaclav Smil
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Recommended by Bill Gates and Mike Shellenberger
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A wideranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty yearswhether sudden and cataclysmic worldchanging events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent,...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Environment, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
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Mike Shellenberger
“What about the risk of climate catastrophe from crossing tipping points The best book on the subject ranked climate catastrophe risk lowest in terms of fatalities & probabilities compared to other risks eg wars, disease, volcanoes, tsunamis, asteroids”
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