-- World's leading climate campaigners offer practical solutions --
"An insightful and inspiring collection from some of the foremost
thinkers on climate change. Not to be missed." Mark Lynas, author of
High Tide (Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2004)
"A visionary and hopeful book -- an essential survival guide in
turbulent times."
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England
Climate change is a pressing reality. From hurricane Katrina to melting
polar ice, and from mass extinctions to increased threats to food and
water security, the link between corporate globalisation and planetary
blowback is becoming all too evident.
Governments and business keep reassuring the public they are going to
fix the problem. This book brings together some leading activists who
disagree. They expose the inertia, denial, deception -- even threats to
our civil liberties -- which comprise mainstream responses from civil
and military policy makers, and from opinion formers in the media,
corporations and academia.
An epochal change is called for in the way we all engage with the
climate crisis. Key to that change is Aubrey Meyer's proposed
'Contraction and Convergence' framework for limiting global carbon
emissions. This book, which also includes contributions by Mayer Hillman
and George Marshall, is a powerful and vital guide to how mass
mobilisation can avert the looming catastrophe.
