The 2084 Report
A Novel of the Great Warming
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3.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z, this “sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel—a look at where we’re going if we don’t quickly get our act together” (Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change—unveils our potential terrifying future.
2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the most dire predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country—and no one—has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting fictional oral history describes in graphic detail the irreversible effects the Great Warming has had on humankind and the planet.
In short chapters about topics like sea level rise, drought, migration, war, and more, The 2084 Report brings global warming to life, revealing a new reality in which Rotterdam doesn’t exist, Phoenix has no electricity, and Canada is part of the United States. From wars over limited resources to the en masse migrations of entire countries and the rising suicide rate, the characters describe other issues they are confronting in the world they share with the next two generations.
“If the existential threat of climate change keeps you up at night, James Lawrence Powell’s The 2084 Report will make you want to do everything in your power to elect leaders who will combat global warming and save our planet” (Marie Claire).
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Geologist Powell (Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences) debuts with an alarming, somber vision of catastrophic climate change over the course of the 21st century in this speculative oral history. In 2084, an unnamed historian collects accounts from people from all over the world about the massive changes to the climate and the geopolitical fallout of scarce resources and rising sea levels. In addition to devastating natural disasters, there's been a nuclear war between India and Pakistan and the genocidal eradication of Uighurs in China after their sabotage of dams, and other calamities such as athletes dying of heatstroke at the Australian Open in 2028 and the toppling of the Statue of Liberty in a storm that overtook New York City in 2042. Powell also takes a chilling look at xenophobic U.S. politics and the rise of fascism, when, in 2032, a president representing the America First party expels all citizens with Mexican heritage. A decade later, the U.S. invades Canada. While repetitive descriptions of snow melt followed by flooding and drought start to wear on the reader, Powell lays out an intriguing level of detail about the cascading effects of climate change. Fans of climate apocalypse fiction will be chilled by this convincing work.
