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Stephan Faris is a journalist who specializes in writing about the developing world. Since 2000, he has covered Africa, the Middle East, and China for publications including Time, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, and Salon. He is also an Associate Editor at Project Syndicate. He has lived in Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey, and China. He lives in Rome with his wife and son.
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What is unique about Forecast and what does Forecast contribute to the
current dialogue concerning the environment?
What I tried to do in Forecast is show how traditionally environmental
concerns, in this case climate change, are really about much more than "the
environment." As I show in the book, climate change will change (and is
changing) the way we live. While proving direct causation is always tricky,
there's a strong case to be made that climate change has contributed to fighting
in Darfur and demographic changes along the coasts of the U.S. It's altered the
distribution of diseases, the taste of wine and the geopolitics of the north
pole. It also has the potential to spark catastrophe.
In Forecast, you write about the present-day impact of global warming and
how climate shifts have impacted the globe in the past. You essentially use the
past and present climatic and social response to global warming to predict
problems the world is likely to encounter in the future. If humans were to
change their damaging behavior, do you think your predictions for the future
could be reversed? Or have we reached the point of no return?
We've already contributed enough greenhouse gases to ...
Susan Casey is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks. She served as creative director of Outside Magazine, where she was part ... (more)
Charles Clover has been the Environment Editor of The Daily Telegraph, Britain's biggest selling broadsheet paper, since 1987. He won the British Environment and Media's National Journalist of the Year award in 1989... (more)
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