Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide

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McGuire praises Greta Thunberg, Fridays for Future and climate activist organisations like Extinction Rebellion for helping put the climate crisis on the agenda. According to Hothouse Earth, some things we need to achieve include: Brian Aldiss died on August 19, 2017, just after celebrating his 92nd birthday with his family and closest friends. Certainly, as it stands, Britain – although relatively well placed to counter the worst effects of the coming climate breakdown – faces major headaches. Heatwaves will become more frequent, get hotter and last longer. Huge numbers of modern, tiny, poorly insulated UK homes will become heat traps, responsible for thousands of deaths every summer by 2050. Sorry, I couldn’t pass up a chance at a Rowdy Roddy Piper reference. How often does that present itself?

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Anyhow. Hothouse is set somewhere along that time, the sun is super hot and on it's last leg. The plant kingdom has taken over riotously and humanity has evolved (or should I say devolved) into... Little. Green. Men.

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Traversers – Giant spider-like vegetables, they spin webs that stretch between the Earth and Moon, and a few have travelled to nearby stars. Their ten-thousand year infancy is now spent on the Moon, away from the worst of the parasitic tigerflies (their only enemies). When mature they live on the solar radiation in space, returning to the Earth to feed and mate, and the Moon to bud.

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All-time heat records have been set all over the world,” Jason Samenow, Independent, UK, 5 July 2018 Well, there isn't much of a plot to speak of. The story starts with one band of humans, moves on to the kids they leave behind when they Go Up, and then follows two of them. I think some of this is due to the book being a patchwork of several of Aldiss' stories set on the Hothouse earth. In 2015, many politicians and environmentalists praised the Paris Climate Accord, intended to hold Earth’s warming under 2°C with national “pledges” to reduce carbon emissions. However, the Hothouse Earth report notes that the Paris Accord “is almost devoid of substantive language,” is not binding, and that “national interests and lowest-common-denominator politics,” have undermined the promises.The shelf life of this lie is, however, rapidly coming to an end. As El Niño conditions build in the eastern Pacific later this year and into next, so there will be another big hike in planetary heating. Across the last five years, the global average temperature rise (compared to 1850 – 1900) has itself averaged out at 1.27°C. It would not be a surprise to see this figure exceed 1.4°C and even approach 1.5°C in the next 18 months. Beyond this, the likelihood of the 1.5°C mark being permanently breached within the next nine years is now 50 percent. This will leave fossil fuel corporations, and the governments that support them, with nowhere to hide. In this respect, the volcanologist, who was also a member of the UK government’s Natural Hazard Working Group, takes an extreme position. Most other climate experts still maintain we have time left, although not very much, to bring about meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. A rapid drive to net zero and the halting of global warming is still within our grasp, they say. Wild fires in Amur region, Russia. This year the area affected by fire, including all categories of land in the region, is 1.69 million hectares.