The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

by Jess Walter

One hundred percent of legitimate climate scientists believe the world to be on the verge of irreversible collapse,

In this time and place, two mildly depressed scientists interviewing for the same job have been caught in some kind of perverted envirosexdeath party by an overlooked genius of southern literature

Swedish study that found that each American child brought into the world means another fifty-eight metric tons of carbon dioxide. To offset the carbon footprint of one more American baby, 684 teenagers would have to become impeccable recyclers who gave up air travel for the rest of their lives.