Gwynne Dyer-Climate Wars

The opening pages of Gwynne Dyer's new book justify his nickname 'Grim Dire". Huge populations shifts, diminishing world-wide food production, frequent hurricanes and cyclones, epidemics, drought all consequences of global warming lead to political instability and "Climate Wars". But the second half of the book is much more positive offering possible solutions and mitigations.

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[michael1791]

lady gaga 200,000,000 views on average...

gwynne dyer 1000 views on average....

we're fucked people, no ones going to listen until the shit hits the fan.

[prenduzal]

Nobody is right about everything. Dyer is useful because he thinks big and pulls you into considering things from a new perspective. He's generally realistic and pragmatic. He makes you think and he's not intimidated by power.

[Bigum99]

Nuclear? Germany and Japan have announce they will end there use for electric plants.

Here in the United States, the "new generation" of bredder reactors will not be built in time to help. Plus, the added 2 billion of people added to the already 7 billion (up from 3 billion in 1960) wanting a consumer pollutting life..."lose a lot of people and species"...that I agree.

[THaTHATTeR]

@michael1791 its not about quantity, its about quality

[northpaw2000]

@michael1791 Well, honestly i think the younger generation is generally self centered, often ignorant about the outside world, where as the older, more mature folks think, how can we stop this, what are its effects etc.

[HomburgandScotch]

Best piece of fiction, other than the bible, ever created

[ech1dna]

@aniak17 OK, you got me on the flirty fishing- there are no bounds to the godsquads capabilities for bent logic it seems.

But...

-I have seen the israel/palestine wall firsthand and can vouch for its lack of robotic machine guns.

-Greens blowing up a nuke plant is sheer cheap-airport-novel stuff.

-Explain the supposed chinese immunity from collapse claim. When china fell apart in the early 20thCentury its size didn't help it retain its power in any way. Why would the future be different?

[aniak17]

@ech1dna 1) China remains powerful even though the state is in chaos by virtue of its size. 2) You dont think that there are machine guns on the Israel/Palestine wall? 3) look up 'flirty fishing' on wikipedia.

[thenatashaswrite]

Attended his speech at the university, my favourite quote being "now, have I sufficiently depressed you?" then following with a stream of solutions. He really makes his audience want change.

[CanadianKeiffer]

I've just finished reading this book. snipeartist must be delusional or American to have missed the entire point. It is well written, well researched and the points it makes are in typical Dyer style - pointed and matter-of-fact. I'm not sure I felt better in having read it, with it's ominous warnings, but I felt more educated on the subject. perhaps snipeartist should take a reading course to understand what he's supposedly reads.

[misplacedmouse]

Very good book, Dyer's sources are rock solid and the connections logical.