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| Category:
Non Fiction/Other non-fiction
| Publication:
2008 Autumn
| Format:
200 pages
| Rights sold:
Finnish/Atena
| Agent:
Annie Johnson
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| Stefan Fölster (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Farväl till världsundergången |
Did you know that in the future the Sahara desert might actually end up as a meadow full of flowers?
In Farewell to Armageddon Stefan Fölster brings an entirely new perspective to the issue of climate change in what has up to now been a somewhat one-sided debate.
In spite of the hype, much of the global warming discussion assumes that people have not been properly informed. Large campaigns, it is hoped, will motivate people to take action themselves, or to support a political agenda for measures that avert global warming. If these campaigns are informative enough, the activists hope, a great number of people will be mobilized.
Unfortunately, this simplistic view of how to prepare for a coming catastrophe may just be wishful thinking. If campaigns are successful in the sense that they stir many people, they tend to release inborn responses to approaching danger. Nature has imbued human beings and other animals with various stay or seek strategies in order to increase the chances that the species or genes will survive rather than any particular individual. These automatic strategies dictate how we tend to deal with future threats. The price for the survival of the gene or the species is that many specific individuals die. Therefore, these stay or seek strategies can lead to pretty awful results by modern standards.
This book tells the story of how humans most likely will deal with global warming, based on modern research on how individuals and societies meet threats of danger. Taking into account normal human reactions, this book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects of stopping global warming. This also leads to rather different conclusions on how to prevent and handle the greenhouse effect.
Yet, this book also provides reasons not to despair about our great-grandchildren’s prospects, but from a very different perspective than what is often propounded. If global warming indeed has reached epidemic proportions as many natural scientists believe, then an entirely different world will emerge. This new world may be the first in human history that allows a rapid growth in standards of living while coming to terms with the erosion of nature that has been a price of human expansion over the last one million years.
 Sample translation
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