Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager (2011)

Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager (2011)

http://www.curtstager.com/Writings.php 


March On Point interview with author:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/03/24/climate-change-future 


Excerpts of the book in the Utne:
1. http://www.utne.com/Environment/Curt-Stager-Deep-Future-Life-After-Global-Warming.aspx  


2. http://www.utne.com/Environment/Curt-Stager-Deep-Future-Life-After-Global-Warming-Part-Two.aspx  


Lecture to students by author: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneklSL7qhw  


I am nearly done reading this book. I know i posted about it before when i started reading it. Want to make a few comments about it now. It has been perhaps the best book in the general genre of climate change science i have come across to date. I will be placing it on the self with these other favorites (none of which have per se to do with sustainability or climate change, but are really useful for those in those disciplines).


The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter 1990.
Information, Entropy & Progress, Robert Ayres 1994.
Nature: An Economic History, Geerat J. Vermeij 2004.


Stager's work is a calm, apolitical, scientific look at climate over the last hundred million years and into the future. It exams via two emissions scenarios how the climates will change, based on what happened in previous times during periods of relative similarity to each scenario. Recommended to all students of the anthroprocene.
Stager provides perhaps the deepest look at climate science for lay people, to date. The enormity of the challenge of the current climate change is made clear, while avoiding the language of catastrophy. Rather it puts it in the broader perspective.