[OKC] Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

[Shauna Struby]

>From the NY Times Sunday Book Review.

 

Poisoning the Well

By WEN STEPHENSON

 

Book reviewed: 

HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

By Mark Hertsgaard

 

339 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $25.

 

I haven't had the talk yet with my kids: my 11-year-old son and 6-year-old
daughter. I mean the one about global warming, about what's coming. But
then, we grown-ups haven't had the talk yet among ourselves. Not really. We
don't seem to know how: the topic is apparently too big and scary. Or
perhaps, for the uninformed (or misinformed), not scary enough.

 

We might take a cue from Mark Hertsgaard's "Hot," which raises the emotional
stakes while keeping a clear head. This was the first book on climate change
that not only frightened me - plenty have done that - but also broke my
heart. It happened first on the dedication page, where he writes, "For my
daughter, Chiara, who has to live through this." And again, as I read his
epilogue: a letter addressed to Chiara on her 15th birthday, in 2020 - a
"cardinal date," Hertsgaard rightly calls it. "According to the scientists I
interviewed," he tells her, "many, many things have to happen by 2020 if
this planet is to remain a livable place." That is, if the storms, droughts,
rising sea levels and mass extinctions of species are to remain within
"manageable" limits.

 

Full review here ::: http://nyti.ms/g29qLL 

 

Shauna Lawyer Struby

imagine, innovate, collaborate, transition

Co-chair, Transition OKC

Past-president, Sustainable OKC

www.goinglocalokc.org <http://www.goinglocalokc.org/> 

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Fresh Greens blog <http://freshgreens.typepad.com/> 

 

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