Catastrophe: A Digital History of the 2030’s Climate Disaster

by Arch Stanton

What will the human stories be when rising sea levels displace millions of people? How will climate change impact regular people across the globe as governments fall into disarray? What will be the human toll of pollution, heatwaves, and drought? A Digital History of the 2030’s Climate Disaster presents itself as a nonfiction “digital history”; a contemporary update to the oral history, about the consequences of climate change and the ensuing political instability in the next decade ahead. Each chapter tells a different story of the human impact of climate change on people from all walks of life around the world.In one chapter, Russian oil field workers face a new disease possibly unleashed by the melting permafrost. Another chapter features a Navy destroyer sent on a humanitarian mission to a Pacific atoll only the find the island completely vanished. Other chapters focus tell the story of a Bangladeshi family’s plight as climate refugees in Myanmar, A Malaysian fisherman taken hostage by pirates, a deadly smog that descends on Beijing, and others.The protagonist of the respective chapters face disease, pirates, drought, poisoned environments, rising sea levels, gangs, and authoritative regimes. Each chapter is action packed and focused on real challenges communities around the world face.As a unique storytelling style, the novel is presented as if these stories have been curated from various digital sources such as online magazines, YouTube videos, leaked testimony, and other sources. Despite taking place in the next decade, the novel feels like one is reading a narrative history of the A Digital History of the 2030’s Climate Disaster keeps readers engaged and enthralled from cover to cover.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 23, 2023