This isn’t a new idea it’s not necessarily wrong to lay out the climate risks of living in some places and the benefits of others. Still, there’s something unsettling about the project, especially since many can’t act as advised, for financial or other reasons, and the real problem is that governments and corporations are failing us.Ī particularly eerie chapter covers which American cities will “do well” in a warmer climate. It wouldn’t be wrong to do as he suggests climate change will make these disasters worse and more frequent. It also includes an explanation of climate science and the obligatory feel-good sections on hope: actions some are taking and how you can participate. Much of the book, especially the sections on what to look for in an insurance policy, is helpful. If Pogue is living the life he’s advising, he is eating homegrown beans, calmly explaining the crisis to his children and monitoring their psychological health, asking his contractor to deepen the soffits in his roof on which he is mounting solar panels, buying several air purifiers and organizing with his fellow citizens. (“Preparing for Social Breakdown” is one chapter.)
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This is a climate change worst-case scenario survival guide: stronger hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, tick- and mosquito-borne illnesses, heat waves, tornadoes, plus how to prepare your business and also how to invest your money before the capitalist superstructure crumbles, apparently. Pogue, a former New York Times tech columnist and current contributor, has got you covered.
It’s always a good idea to prepare for a disaster, especially one you see coming. He writes about often forgotten and impressive environmental infrastructure, resistance to European invasion and successful adaptation - for example, many tribal nations of the American West turned to buffalo hunting only after Europeans had made their previous sedentary agricultural traditions impossible. First, Kreike, despite relying heavily on Dutch sources (dam enthusiasts will love the details), helps return historical agency to non-European actors in the wars of colonization around the world. But there are significant contributions here.
“Environcide consists of intentionally or unintentionally damaging, destroying or rendering inaccessible environmental infrastructure” - which he broadly defines as homes, agriculture, water sources and more - “through violence that may be episodic and spectacular … or continuous and cumulative.”Īt times, this seems like tautology - it’s hard to imagine a war of any kind that wouldn’t fit this description. Kreike’s argument is that environmental warfare, in which nature is a tool and a target, has occurred for hundreds of years, perpetrated by people all over the world, and that environcide (a term my brain wants to autocorrect to “envirocide”) should be considered a crime against humanity.
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