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    American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
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    American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

    By Giles Slade

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    Some scientists predict the sea will rise 1.5 meters before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real amount much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and heat events will be annual threats. All this will occur as population grows, and declining water resources desiccate agriculture. What will happen when the United States cannot provide food or fresh water for the overheated, overcrowded cities where 80% of Americans currently live?

    The good news is that this overall decline of habitability in the mid-latitudes will be matched by increases in the carrying capacity of sparsely populated lands above the 49th parallel. This phenomenon suggests that waves of environmental refugees will travel poleward as southern conditions worsen. Our northern lands are our Noah's ark - a vital refuge against the moment of mankind's greatest need.

    In this compelling cautionary tale, Slade argues that we are entering a long period of global desperation which will be characterized by human migration on an unprecedented scale. American Exodus is a frighteningly believable survey of our immediate future, but it ends on a note of hope: we may yet survive the coming century of climatic change if we act now to safeguard our shelter of last resort.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781550925487
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    American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
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    Giles Slade

    Giles Slade is an award winning environmentalist concerned about the diminishing quality of life that awaits his children under climate change. His rich and colorful history also includes stints as a college lecturer, a Harlequin adventure novel writer, an illegal alien, a convicted felon and a college professor. He is regularly published in a variety of other print and online journals. He is the author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America and The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness.

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      I am entirely in sympathy with Mr. Slade's basic point that the increasing warming of the earth is most likely a result of human activity and that such warming will cause more and more disruption of life as we have known it in America and around the world. Further I agree with him that the disruptions may well come more quickly and with much more force that expected--that there is the real possibility of some sort of cascading environmental collapse that will greatly reduce human populations in a great many places. At the same time, Mr. Slade makes an egregious error. He says repeatedly that 80% (page 71), almost the entire (p.72), or 70% (p.142) of the U. S. corn and soybean crops were lost to drought in 2012. This is preposterous. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture,the corn crop of 10.78 billion bushels was down 24% over initial forecasts made just after a very favorable planting season, and down 11% from the previous year. Soybean production was down 3% compared to 2011. The author is a Canadian who has spent long years in Los Angeles and has no real concept of how important the American corn and soybean crops (most to which are grown in the Midwest) are for feeding this and other continents. So he does not understand what such a crop failure as he thinks took place would have done to the North American economy by the time he wrote this book.And if he and his publisher can be so wrong on a matter of such importance, how is the reader to trust the other points he makes in this scary, perhaps too scary, book?