Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030

by Robert Hunter

A Greenpeace founder identifies 2030 as the year by which the earth's climate change will become irreversible, presenting scientific evidence and analyzing the politics that surround climate change to urge for a course of action to stop or slow global warming. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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Robert "Bob" Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president. He led the first on-sea anti-whaling campaigns in the world, against Russian and Australian whalers, which helped lead to the ban on commercial whaling. He campaigned against nuclear testing, the Canadian seal hunt and later, climate change with his book Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030. He was named by Time as one of the "Eco-Heroes" of the 20th century and is credited with coining the terms "mindbomb" and "eco-warrior".

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad read. Here we have the ultimate mea culpa from the late Bob Hunter for his grandson. What doesn't work is the endless pages devoted to how large of a carbon footprint that he himself has left. What does work is an engaging history of the rise of the oil industry, the history of his own environmental activism and the very interesting call for strong government regulation of pollution. It is this last point that should have taken up the majority of the book.