I love this book!

I read this book recently in preparation for a unit I've opted into next year - 'Global Environment and Human Health'.

Before I read the book my knowledge of climate change and the measures being taken to halt it was almost non existant, certainly limited to the little I hear in the media. However the facts of climate change hit home within the opening chapters. We will almost certainly live to experience the implications of rising global temperatures in this lifetime so the suggestion that this will cause vast levels of earth to be drowned and widescale famine is sobering.

Monbiot doesn't dwell on these facts though, taking them as a given and perhaps more productively trying to calculate whether or not a halt to warming can occur before we reach a 'tipping point'. He does this by assessing our major contributions to global warming and seeking out viable alternatives.

I have to agree with the blurb - this book is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about climate change - you might be surprised by the options for reducing C02 emissions, but it seems until public demand for change rises politicians will continue to do a little to save taking real measures to protect our futures.