Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe

by David Cromwell (Editor), Mark Levene (Editor)

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 globalization 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, which he outlines in this book. Also included here are contributions from Mayer Hillman and George Marshall, making this a powerful and vital guide to how mass mobilization can avert the looming catastrophe.

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2007

Reviews

[Andy Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cautiously optimistic and thought provoking.