This one was thoroughly researched but the tone in all the interviewees didn't change, which made the book feel impossibly long and not as if it was a series of interviews. All the interviewees had the same tone and even the ones who said English wasn't their native language still conveyed things perfectly. I feel like this content is best suited to the people who won't end up reading it. Those reading it already believe in the dangers of climate change. Unfortunately it didn't give any suggestions on what the individual people could've done other than protest. I think this one missed the mark a bit, although I appreciate the content and the intent behind it.

Wow! If this isn't eye opening then I don't know what is. This book is set in the future. The year is 2084.

This powerful novel although science fiction tells a tale of what could happen if we don't do something to stop Global Warming. I am certainly not here to debate your stance on it, but I will say that this author is a scientist. He has definitely done his research on the matter. Different people around the world are interviewed. I think everyone should read this book, but be warned it reads more as a nonfiction book and that is the only reason for the lower rating from me.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for the #gifted copy of this book.

Ugh. This book. I am equal parts furious, concerned, intrigued and bored.

What I liked:
It was well researched an fit took me so long to read as I kept getting side tracked googling facts and dates and information.
The climate crisis is laid out bare for us to see where we have been. Where we are. And where we are headed.
It was not focused on the USA or Europe or the west entirely which was so fresh.
It is a serious and important book that I think people really need to consider reading.

What fell flat for me:
The use of the word Eskimo. Not capitalizing Insigenous.
While “interviewing” people from all over the globe many time the interview started like this. “Sorry my English is bad... I will do my best” and proceeds to go off in perfect English.
Each voice sounds the same. The only way I remember who is speaking is a little quote or saying in their language.


The message was so good. The information was so good. The execution was just not as good.

I think the message of this book is super important. But the execution is lacking, which is why I ended up at 3-3.5 stars instead of more.

The author was going for a World War Z vibe but certainly it fell quite short of that. Each of the interviews with different people were in very similar voices, sometimes with the same turns of phrase. Sometimes they ended abruptly and/or felt incomplete.

I did think that it started getting stronger towards the end of the first section and later on into the book. Many of the stories/interviews were really compelling but the storytelling was dry.

Despite the shortcomings, I still think this is an important and sobering read, and certainly a preview of things to come if we don't change out shit up real fast.

3.5 stars

Fast forward to 2084. Global Warming has made a serious impact on life on Earth. In this work of fiction, we hear from numerous people from around the world to form an oral history of how climate change has effected things. Topics range from health impact, wars, lack of resources, species extinction and more. All of it is scary stuff yet not entirely unimaginable. The oral history tells of America become rule by a fascist "America First" party who works to remove all illegal aliens from the US in an effort to save American resources & jobs for Americans. We hear of cities submerged by rising seawater...ocean front homes lost to the tides...mass migrations as people move to higher ground or more temperate zones.

I loved he concept of this and feel that all of the science and projections are sound and realistic. However, the storytelling wasn't quite there for me. This was supposed to be an oral history told from many different view points but the voice in all of the different accounts sounded the same.

This book is more terrifying than any horror novel you will ever read, its so close to what could very plausibly happen, and it's scary as hell!

We follow the narration of a few different climate scientists as they detail the events that have happened in different places all over the world. From the rising sea, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, drought, food sacristy, water sacristy, housing crisis, wars, fascism, refugees, disease, and everything else horrible that could happen- all of this is a cautionary and incredibly realistic tale of what will likely happen because we have all allowed climate change to continue without intervention.

I highly recommend this book. I fear, that within many of our lifetimes the events in this book will become a stark reality.

4.5 stars

**ARC provided by Atria Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

⁣It’s 2084 and global warming has destroyed our planet. This book is a report to show what happened and what could have been avoided, and how. ⁣
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Each chapter of this book is an interview with a different individual affected by the changes in the world due to global warming. It is short and easy to read. Readers may became bored with parts, but it’s easy to skim and find the chapters that one is interested in if need be. Each chapter is a different area/culture affected, but after a bit they do start to feel the same. I would have liked to see a bit more culture specific personalities from the interviewees. I could tell this book was strongly researched, which makes it very scary and difficult to read at times. It’s as if you’re reading a doomsday to come book, if we don’t shape up and change our ways. Anyone who is interested in climate change will love this book. If it’s not an interest, it is still an important book to read. ⁣
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“𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧.”⁣
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The 2084 Report comes out 9/1. ⁣
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One word sums this book up: terrifying. TERRIFYING.

Written by geologist Dr James Lawrence Powell, this is a book of fiction, but reads as non-fiction. Set in the year 2084, it is an oral history of the devastation wreaked upon our planet by unchecked global warming. The narrator interviews different people in different areas of the world to see why we didn’t do enough to save our planet, what we could have done, and how global warming affected everyone, everywhere. The book is divided into different chapters that deal clearly with areas such as melting ice/rising sea levels, drought, fascism, immigration, war, extinction, and clean energy possibilities.

One could say that this is dystopian fiction, but I think we would be better off categorizing this as a red flag warning: in 2020 we are still not striving to reverse the effects of the damage that our nations are creating to the environment, and every year we are losing the chance to ensure that our children and grandchildren live in a world where they will thrive. This is really our last chance.

Just this August here in California we had a week of sustained temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not difficult to imagine this becoming the norm, to imagine losing power constantly, not being able to grow food… And so on. The 2084 Report provides a pretty terrible overview of what our world will look like in 2084, and a lot of it is based on hard scientific facts.

If you are going into this book thinking that you will be reading a novel, you may be a bit thrown off by the content. It reads as an oral history, and therefore as nonfiction. I personally think that this is the best way to deal with this topic: it is very real, and very terrifying, and the only way to make a change in what our next generations will face, is to make it now.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

How long are we going to ignore the elephant in the room? The climate change and its destruction to our planet as of now is something we know it exists, but we are not doing much to avoid it.

Powell writes a whole book on this theme, giving us an insight into how our world is going to look like in 2084. It does seem that a lot of research and hard work is involved in writing such a factual and thought-provoking book.

I like the categorization of the book into different sections of effects global warming can cause like species extinction, rising of sea-level etc. A reader can jump onto that particular section which interests him/her.

The only thing I expected from this book is the plot. In terms of "fiction", the book is lacking the story a reader is expecting. 'The 2084 Report' is more like a non-fiction book. Having read some great science-fiction books like 'The Martian', I was expecting more than just interviews of the characters.

Overall, an important book we all should read since we share the same planet the author is warning us about, and there is no planet B.

Thank you Atria Books for sending me eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I wish that the author had collaborated with a novelist in writing this book. The scientific predictions were gripping, but the book read more like nonfiction than a novel.

It was really interesting reading this since it was on a subject matter that is really on point for what we are dealing with today which is climate change and the effects on the planet. I really found the writing very well done and how it was written was super interesting. The book is divided into different disasters and different subchapters delving more into the catastrophe. While this is fiction it is written like nonfiction since its all interviews with different characters pov on the disasters happening at the time as well as scientists view on why a disaster is happening. This was a very interesting and thought provoking read.

Thanks to Atria and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book in e-book form. All opinions in this review are my own.

Dr. Powell brings the experience and understanding of a scientist to this speculative account of what is to come for many of us over the next several decades of global climate change. This work is frightening, at times terrifying, and acutely necessary if we are to organize and actually do something, anything at all, to avert the disaster that our future is shaping up to become. "The 2084 Report" is similar in urgency to "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future" published in 2014 by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, though that novella stretched even farther into our collective future to paint a dire picture of the long-lost past. Dr. Powell's effort is more personal and pointed, laying clear who is to blame for what we of the waning Industrial Age and era of fossil fuels have unleashed on future generations. Much of Dr. Powell's narrative is based on common, relatively linear extrapolations from current trends that have become more apparent since 2000: species extinctions, rising sea levels, stronger storms, flood and drought extremes, climate-driven human migration, shifting agricultural zones, resource conflicts (especially over water sources), and all-out war. Some of the details seemed fanciful at first glance, but then I thought of how 2020 is going so far, and everything in "The 2084 Report" was suddenly well within reach. I hope things don't turn out this way, and that's a compliment to Dr. Powell's work—he's done the homework to make it personal, to bring it into people's living rooms and kitchens, and we need to pay attention.

Situations like this make me so sad - I LOVED the premise of this book. I've read World War Z more times than I like to admit, and this seemed similar. But while World War Z was focused on getting perspectives from a huge number of diverse individuals, all the people in this book just sounded exactly the same. It was repetitive.

A bit dry. I was expecting the personal accounts to bring a little life to the stories but each entry I read felt a bit lacking in personality and seemed more like an entry of just facts and figures with small anecdotes in between. I do like that the book is ordered by topic, so if you're interested in how climate change affects war, health, animal species, etc., you can go straight to that part of the book and read the accounts there. Even though the writing style didn't hold my interest, I did find the whole concept of presenting climate change from the perspective of humanity in the future to be a very interesting look at a growing problem that we still have the power to change today.

This was grim, scary and depressing AF and thank heavens it is a apocalyptic predictive fiction about the future of the planet, but it does and should scare everyone who reads it into action. Our current generation is already seeing effects of climate change from past generations and future generations have to live with a vastly changing Earth. I liked how the chapters were divided into different disasters and different sub-chapters delving deeper into catastrophe. The author obviously did a lot of research and you can tell he cares about climatology and a call to global action.

This is brief read, less than 250 pages, it was 224. I was able to read this in a few days. This is a work of fiction but left me with a sense of dread and doom just like the nonfiction book, Uninhabitable Earth. I think these are both important pieces of writing and we as a plant. human-race need to work together to make some real changes for future generations, to hold off the doom a little longer. This will stay with for a long time and a must read.

Thanks to Netgalley, James Lawrence Powell and Atria Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Available: 9/1/20

Global warming was scary before I read this book. Now I'm terrified. The world painted in The 2084 Report isn't a cautionary tale, it's an eventuality. Read it and weep, literally.

I was prepared to love this because I loved _World War Z_, but this book did not hold my interest. Too much of the non-fiction aspect, not enough of the personal story aspect.

Those of us with an IQ over 85 know that climate change is real and that it’s happening even faster than scientists predicted. So we wonder, what will the world look like for our children? Powell has written his novel as if it is nonfiction, providing an oral and written history of where we went wrong and what happened when we failed to listen to science. This is a chilling and, I’m afraid, all to real look at the future of the planet we all inhabit, a planet that is doomed unless we can find world leaders who put science before greed, ignorance and politics