May 2023 MBR The Environmental Studies Shelf

The Environmental Studies Shelf

The Climate Pandemic
Dennis Meredith
www.DennisMeredith.com
Glyphus, LLC
http://glyphus.com
9781939118233, $23.99, PB, 480pp

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Pandemic-Disruption-Threatens-Survival/dp/1939118239

Synopsis: With the publication of "The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival", author Dennis Meredith argues that much of what you've been told about climate disruption are myths. Focusing on climate disruption, "The Climate Pandemic" reveals why: Current plans to limit global heating will not avoid climate catastrophe; Renewable energy will not offer a major clean energy source; Decarbonizing our energy system is a delusion; The human species will not ultimately survive climate disruption.

"The Climate Pandemic" details the science, technology, politics, economics, and psychology that determine our climate future. It explains climate-driven heat waves, megadroughts, wildfires, floods, and superstorms. It explores the human impacts of climate disruption: increased toxicity and disease, famine, migration, conflict, and societal collapse. It documents the failure of the media, scientists, environmentalists, corporations, and politicians to act on climate disruption. And it reveals how the Paris agreement, renewable energy, carbon capture, geoengineering, and nuclear power are unrealistic panaceas.

As our mission for the future, "The Climate Pandemic" advocates that we dedicate ourselves to palliating our planet, preserving as much as we can.

Critique: A sobering study focusing on the impact of Climate Change upon the Earth and the human race, "The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival" is an important contribution on the subject of Climate Change in terms of our personal and collective responses to surviving it as individuals and as a species. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Environmental Studies collections and supplemental Climate Change curriculum studies lists, it should be noted for students, academia, political/environmental activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99).

Editorial Note: Dennis Meredith (www.DennisMeredith.com) has worked as a science communicator at some of the country's leading research universities, including MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Duke and the University of Wisconsin. Over his career, he has written well over a thousand news releases and magazine articles on science and engineering. He is author of nonfiction books Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work and The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival, as well as award-winning science thriller novels.

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