{"product_id":"this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-how-droughts-and-die-offs-heat-waves-and-hurricanes-are-converging-on-america-9781250238627","title":"This Is the Way the World Ends: How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle's\u003c\/i\u003e \"17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In September 2018\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThis is the Way the World Ends\u003c\/i\u003e Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at this very moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The good news? As Nesbit underscores, disaster is not preordained. The global community can meet this moment -- and we must.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Senator John Kerry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique view of climate change glimpsed through the world's resources that are disappearing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLonger droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected events. These are the pieces of a larger puzzle that environmental expert Jeff Nesbit puts together \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble - right now. \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Way the World Ends \u003c\/i\u003etells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth's systems unfolding across each continent. The bad news? Within two decades or so, our carbon budget will reach a point of no return. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut there's good news. Like every significant challenge we've faced--from creating civilization in the shadow of the last ice age to the Industrial Revolution--we \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e get out of this box canyon by understanding the realities and changing the worn-out climate conversation to one that's relevant to every person. Nesbit provides a clear blueprint for real-time, workable solutions we can tackle together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJEFF NESBIT was the director of public affairs for two federal science agencies and a senior communications official at the White House. Now the executive director of Climate Nexus, he is a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Time, U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report, Axios, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eQuartz.\u003c\/i\u003e Nesbit is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe author of \u003ci\u003ePoison Tea \u003c\/i\u003ein addition to dozens of novels.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333802823954,"sku":"9781250238627","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68ada476-0e91-47cb-bd6e-ac67bd6deb26.jpg?v=1727877844","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-how-droughts-and-die-offs-heat-waves-and-hurricanes-are-converging-on-america-9781250238627","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}