Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Cascades -- II. Elements of chaos -- Heat death -- Hunger -- Drowning -- Wildfire -- Disasters no longer natural -- Freshwater drain -- Dying oceans -- Unbreathable air -- Plagues of warming -- Economic collapse -- Climate conflict -- "Systems" -- III. The climate kaleidoscope -- Storytelling -- Crisis capitalism -- The church of technology -- Politics of consumption -- History after progress -- Ethics at the end of the world -- IV. The anthropic principle -- Afterword to the paperback edition.

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.