num_pages: 304
description: In this extraordinary book paleoclimatologist Curt Stager shows how what we do to the environment in the next one hundred years will affect not just the next few centuries but the next 100000 years of human existence. Most of us have accepted that our planet is warming and that humans have played the key role in causing climate change. Yet few of us realize the magnitude of whats happening. In Deep Future  Curt Stager draws on the planets geological history to provide a view of where we may be headed long term. On the bright side we have already put off the next ice age. But whether we will barrel ahead on a polluting path to a totally ice-free Arctic miles of submerged coasts or an acidified ocean still remains to be decided. And that decision is ours to make. Deep Future adds a new dimension to the debateone that will change how we think about what we are doing to our planet.
language: English
title: Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books