Let me begin this review with an admission. I am one of those who has read and To some small degree understood that climate change is real and that mitigating it is crucial. That said, this particular book is for those who want to wield facts and stats like hammers. To that end perhaps the text is laid out as a handbook of issues and worries related to climate change / global warming. My own sense is that it would be more useful to such readers (and even more honestly distributed) as a glossy 40+ page handout that kept the very useful graphs and stats and then closed with ONE section (not the many many sections the book contains) titled “What you can do to mitigate climate change.” When you proselytizing, and especially door to door, providing your possible converts with a quick read and forty graphs provides visual assurance that you know what you are talking about.
Seriously, the central problem with this book is its combination of facts and sly editorializing. Rather than simply lay out probabilities and point to salient areas of concern, the author is unrelenting is his assurance that “facts” are “facts” and he that he knows exactly what to do about each and every one of them. Could it be that the author who is so very certain that his stance is scientifically sound has become the willing victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Global warming is a thing, yes. But the earth-system is plastic and dynamic and thus a more plastic and dynamic approach to its ramifications and challenges would have been nice to see. Being bombarded by lists of problems simply atomizes and compartmentalizes, as though all the issues related to global warming should be equally concerning. The attempt seems to be to induce hand wringing and high anxiety as well as to push readers to be 24/7 on the job of climate change mitigation. It is a bit like imagining that the response to Mississippi flooding ought be building our own sump pumps and never flushing the toilet. Statistical hyperbole is like any form of rhetorical grandstanding, meant to impress rubes and one’s parents.
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