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While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and he began to wonder what current and impending--and largely unanticipated--crises such changes have in store for the world. Forecast provides the answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. Italy has already experienced its first climate-change epidemic of a tropical disease, and malaria is gaining ground in Africa. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw political alliances around the globe, driving environmentalists into the hands of anti-immigrant groups. America's coasts are already more difficult places to live, as increasing insurance rates make the Gulf Coast and other gorgeous spots prohibitively expensive. Crops will fail in previously lush places and thrive in some formerly barren zones, altering huge industries and remaking traditions. Water scarcity in India and Pakistan have the potential to inflame the conflict in Kashmir to unprecedented levels and draw the United States into the troubles there and elsewhere. Told through the narratives of current, past, and future events, the result of astonishingly wide travel and reporting, Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our world.

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"Narrator Mel Foster has a deep, resonant voice that clearly enunciates the book's themes with credibility and intelligence.-- ""AudioFile"" ""A globe-spanning look at the effects of climate change, already apparent in our time...Faris writes deftly about the developing world."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""An intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ecology, and lifestyles."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""As Stephan Faris' Forecast so powerfully illustrates, global warming is already playing a crucial role in a number of issues besetting the planet...With a very deft hand, and even a touch of ironic wit, Faris shows that global warming comes at real cost to real people--and the future is already upon us."" -- ""Scott Anderson, author of The Man Who Tried to Save the World"" ""Stephan Faris has traveled everywhere, holding his journalist's looking glass up for everyone to see the same carbon-crazed climate monster looming in every reflection. Reader, that mirror is now in your hands. Your world, too, is peering from these pages. Better pay attention."" -- ""Alan Weisman, New York Times bestselling author of The World without Us"""

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Stephan Faris is a journalist who specializes in writing about the developing world. Since 2000, he has covered Africa, the Middle East, and China for such publications as Time, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly, and Salon. He has lived in Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey, and China. He now lives in Rome with his wife and son. Mel Foster has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won several awards. Twice an Audie finalist for 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood and Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey, he won for the latter title. He has also won two AudioFile Earphones Awards. Best known for mysteries, Mel has also narrated classic authors such as Thoreau, Nabokov, and Whitman.

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