There are already plenty of good, in-depth reviews that give you an indication of what you'll be reading if you get this book, so I won't duplicate. All I will say is that this book is well-written, easy to read, and chock full of references to studies and other supporting documentation for what the author discusses. There are literally pages and pages of citations at the back of the book so you can go check out the author's sources for yourself. If you read this book and STILL somehow find a way to deny that climate change is real, is happening right now, and will continue to happen for at least another ~100 years....there's just no help for you.
I'd already read "Under a Green Sky" and other books that give a flavor of what now awaits us as a result of our having carelessly overloaded the planet with greenhouse gases. This book cited some of the same material, but also PLENTY of other research and studies that I hadn't come across yet.
It is depressing to read this book, as some of the damage has already happened and can NEVER be reversed. I nearly cried reading the sparse (maybe ten sentences) description of how one species - the golden tree frog, in South America - was determined to be extinct. One single little male frog, all alone, showing up at the mating grounds for a couple of years in a row, giving out his mating call....but the only one there to know it was a scientist who had been studying the frogs. Then, the next year...nothing. The last little male frog didn't come to the mating grounds....nor was he there the next year, or the next....and it was concluded that the entire species was now extinct. All told in just a few sentences, unemotionally...but even sadder as a result. This is what our brutal ignorance is doing: murdering species one after the other, left and right...with only one, or a few, scientists even present at the "funeral".
If that doesn't disgust you and make you unhappy with "politics as usual', and the human race in general, I doubt anything will - and reading this book won't change a thing in your mind.
I applaud the author for writing this. I hope that his hopes for his daughter come true, that somehow things can be changed quickly enough to avoid the future predicted. That the book is depressing to read is NOT the author's fault - the topic itself is depressing. This book, however, takes the mature attitude that until and unless we, as a race, both KNOW and ADMIT what we are facing, nothing can be done. This is his attempt to bring light to the shadows created by opportunistic politicians and greed-meisters who think only of the next three months (or year at most).
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