When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves
— David Orr
Clive Hamilton
As has been said, we are sleep-walking to the edge of a cliff. I don't know what to do with the information contained in this book. I almost envy the people who can dismiss the terrible truth of what we are doing to this planet with hand waving statements like "Science doesn't know everything", who go about their small daily lives as if only they and their social circles matter. Clive Hamilton lays out the science of global warming in detail and says as most knowledgable people do, that organisations like the IPCC which our governments rely on to inform...