Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls

“Fred Pearce has written all about climate change from inside different branches of science. He has seen the worst of it. He’s seen the appalling damage of stripping away tropical rainforests, excessive agriculture, excessive carbon dioxide from polluting factories and cars and aircraft. But here he is actually looking for hope and he sees that some things are good. Some books about the climate crisis are overly gung-ho, sometimes for political reasons – they argue that there is no crisis, that everything is fine. Fred Pearce is not like that. He’s writing from a position of full understanding of the chemistry, the biology, and other aspects of science that are part of the debate. And I think it is really helpful.” Read more...

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