Introduction

imagining the unimaginable

Jim Norwine

1-11

Estrangement

a beginner's guide to the strangeness of the world

Jonathan M. Smith

15-23

Global climate change

Gerald R. North

25-42

An evolving worldview

culture-shift in university students

Michael S. Bruner, John Davenport, Jim Norwine

43-62

Field notes from the future

environmental conditions at four localities in 2100

Michael Jennings

67-87

Getting from here to there

policy pathways to address human mobility in the context of climate change

Koko Warner

89-111

The good, the bad, and the ugly

thoughts on possible outcomes

John Davenport

113-138

Europe 2050–2100

imagining new lifeways/lifestyles

Niem Tu Huynh, Anke Uhlenwinkel

141-191

The projected death of the fertile crescent

Pinhas Alpert, Fengjun Jin, Akio Kitoh

193-203

The future of the middle East

İlhan Kaya, Yilmaz Ari, Hakkı Yazici

205-224

Imagined lifeways in North America ca. 2100

Mark Bjelland, Michael S. Bruner, John Davenport

225-244

Climate change and its impact on cultural shifts in East and southeast Asia

Niem Tu Huynh

245-302

The postmodern environment

Pappin

305-325

Blissful devolution

our Rolling judgment day

David J. Nemeth

327-349

The guilt of hollow men

global warming as postmodern apocalypse

Jonathan M. Smith

351-362

Colliding with reality

liquid modernity and the environment

Arran Gare

363-392

Epilogue

the end of the arctic as we know it

Robert Harriss

393-403