Jetaime’s Reviews > Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction > Status Update

conditions, exacerbated by the heat humans are adding to the party. Many regions will suffer the same problems that farmers face in Africa every season, when drought can wreck an entire regions hope for food and incomes. It’s very possible that our dreams for a global society in an industrialized world will have the unintended consequences of pushing most people into lives of poverty, hunger, and disease."

Some of the environmental changes we’re witnessing in the grain baskets of Africa and North America are cyclical changes that have nothing to do with humans use of fossil fuels. But if the Intergovernmental Panel on climate changes recent models of rising global temperatures from carbon emissions turn out to be accurate, we’ll soon be dealing with cynical drought..

"Vizenor coined the term "survivance" to describe the practices of natives today who are connected to their cultural traditions, but also living them dynamically, reshaping them to suite life in a world forever changed by colonial contact. The difference between survival and survivance is the difference between maintaining existence at a subsistence level and leading a life that is freely chosen. As we contemplate..

Planet had no Arctic ice cap. It was a period of intense heat when greenhouse conditions reigned and our hominid ancestors had not yet evolved. Though many animals thrive in the Miocene climate, humans would t. We are the products of a cold Earth, just like many of our mammal brethren. "We need to keep those ice caps," Ward said.

Peter award, a geologist at the University if Washington, who has written about mass extinctions in several books, including his influential work The Medea Hypothesis, believes carbon emissions mean that environmental change is almost inevitable. "We’re going back to the Miocene," he said, then laughed darkly. The Miocene, a geological age that ended roughly 5.3 million years ago, was the last time that the

If humans are going to make it in the long term, and preserve our planet along with us, we need to accept that change is the status quo. To survive this far, we’ve had to change dramatically over time, and we’ll have to change even more-remolding our world, our cities, and even our bodies. This book is going to show you how we’ll do it.