A review by dennesseewilliams
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Erik Conway, Naomi Oreskes

5.0

Well, that was interesting! Naomi Oreskes combines scientific facts and fiction to envision a world in the 24th century. From this future perspective, Oreskes, who is a historian of science at Harvard, is able to take an outside view on Western society to show how it has failed to prevent human-induced climate change which consequently resulted in the demise of Western civilization as the dominating power on the world stage.
Oreskes uses a multitude of scientific, political, and historical facts to show how the Anthropocene started, and how we, in the 21st century, bafflingly fail to prevent the harm we are causing to ourselves.