A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally
acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather
Makers.
How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it
drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and
social revolution? Or will we be plunged into the dystopian collapses
and terrors of civilizations past?
This book describes in plain terms our climate predicament and brings
news of exciting tools in the making that could help us avoid a climatic
disaster.
In December 2015 the nations of the world will gather in Paris to try to
forge a climate treaty designed to give us a fighting chance to limit
global warming to 2C, widely regarded as the safe upper limit if we are
to avoid catastrophe. If we succeed at Paris, forging a new era of
international political cooperation in the fight against a warming
planet, it is possible that the next decade will astonish us in the
solutions that we discover to safeguard our planet for our grandchildren
and their grandchildren.