A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction: Imagining the Unimaginable by Jim Norwine.- Section A Setting the Stage: Chapter 2 Estrangement: A Beginner's Guide to the Strangeness of the World by Jonathan M. Smith.- Chapter 3 Global Climate Change by Gerald R. North.- Chapter 4 An Evolving Worldview: Culture-shift in University Students by Michael Bruner, John Davenport, and Jim Norwine: Section B Imagining a World: General Impacts and Implications: Chapter 5 Field Notes from the Future: Environmental Conditions at Four Locali- ties in 2100 by Michael Jennings.- Chapter 6 Getting from Here to There: Policy Pathways to Address Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change by Koko Warner.- Chapter 7 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Thoughts on Possible Outcomes by John Davenport: Section C Imagining a World: Specific Regional Impacts and Implications: Chapter 8 Europe 2050-2100: Imagining New Lifeways/Lifestyles by Anke Uhlenwinkel and Niem Huynh.- Chapter 9 The Projected Death of the Fertile Crescent by Pinhas Alpert, Fengjun Jin, and Akio Kitoh.- Chapter 10 The Future of the Middle East by Yilmaz Ari, Ilhan Kaya, and Hakki Yazici.- Chapter 11 Imagined Lifeways in North America ca. 2100 by Mark Bjelland, Michael Bruner, and John Davenport.- Chapter 12 Climate Change and Its Impact on Cultural Shifts in East and Southeast Asia by Niem Huynh, Wen Lin, L. Renee Ness, Darlene Occena-Gutierrez, and Duy Xuan Tran: Section D Inhabiting an Imagined World: Better or Worse? Four Interpretations.- Chapter 13 The Postmodern Environment by Gladden J. Pappin.- Chapter 14 Blissful Devolution: Our Rolling Judgment Day by David J. Nemeth.- Chapter 15 The Guilt of Hollow Men: Global Warming as Postmodern Apocalypse by Jonathan M. Smith.- Chapter 16 Colliding with Reality: Liquid Modernity and the Environment by Arran Gare.- Chapter 17 Epilogue: The End of the Artic as We Know It by Robert Harriss.- Index.