How We Can Save the Planet, Mayer Hillman

Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it. The blueprint is practical at a personal level but the challenge he throws out is to governments and business: do they have the political courage to take the necessary steps to avert the end of the world? He anticipates the counter-arguments and gives the reader the ammunition to challenge the prevailing inaction in these areas.
Stimulating, challenging, frightening but also practical, this is a book that will help you make a difference.
Climate change is the most important issue of our age –– perhaps any age. If we, collectively and individually, do not act resolutely on it and to the extent that is imperative, the prospects are grim. Higher temperatures are predicted worldwide, with average 6º above current levels by the end of the century and higher still in some countries. Sea levels will rise inexorably and rainfall patterns will be greatly altered, with the frequency of drought conditions and severe flooding far more common. Large parts of the globe are likely to become uninhabitable, especially in delta and other low lying regions of the world. We are already witnessing the first stages of a monumental catastrophe.
Mayer Hillman 2004