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None of that in Winton: his future projections seem way off, both underestimating the dangers of climate change, and overestimating our engineering capabilities. By now it's clear that the IPCC's projections have been way too moderate -- just read up a bit on what scientists like James Hansen and Leon Simons have published recently. There are feedback loops and tipping points, and global warming seems to be accelerating, possibly exponentially. Even within the next decade it could get really ugly, and in a few centuries our biosphere might have evolved in such a way it won't be able to support human life whatsoever.

Winton handwaves away international supply lines for batteries, water is just made, and soil doesn't need much more than ground bones to continue to be fertile. The psychology of some of the future humans portrayed is baffling: they have adapted to living months in underground caves, yet even underground they are often unable to speak because of the oppressive summer heat -- and still our characters don't feel the need to move to a more hospitable part in the south of Australia?

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