AN ILLUSTRATED VIEW OF BILL McKIBBEN’S ARTICLE ON THE BOOK “OUR FINAL WARNING: SIX DEGREES OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY” BY MARK LYNAS Illustrated by Gary Zuriel Houser All text excerpted from: BILL McKIBBEN’S REVIEW “130 DEGREES” [1] OF THE BOOK OUR FINAL WARNING: SIX DEGREES OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY BY MARK LYNAS “The main question is whether we’ll be able to hold the rise in temperature to a point where we can, at great expense and suffering, deal with those crises coherently, or whether they will overwhelm the coping abilities of our civilization. The latter is a distinct possibility, as Mark Lynas’s new book, Our Final Warning , makes painfully clear.” “Because our societies wasted that decade [since his first book] by pouring ever more carbon into the atmosphere, this book—impeccably sourced and careful to hew to the wide body of published research—is far, far darker. As Lynas says in his opening sentences, he had long assumed that we “could probably survive climate ch...