Overshoot : how the world surrendered to climate breakdown

Malm, Andreas, 1977-2024

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The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating force, and yet a notion has taken hold that the cause is now lost. The limit will be overshot. How could the idea of overshoot gain such traction? The authors present a history of the present phase of the crisis, likely to extend decades into the future, as the fossil fuel industry swims in the largest profits ever made. Money continues to flow into the construction of pipelines, platforms, terminals, mines - assets that will have to be destroyed for the planet to remain liveable. Too much heat has become officially acceptable because such revolutionary destruction is not. But should the rest of us abide by that priority? 'Overshoot' lays out the stakes for the climate struggle in the years ahead.