Tip for Reading List: Striking a balance on climate change | Explained News, The Indian Express

Tip for Reading List: Striking a balance on climate change | Explained News, The Indian Express

By ENS Economic Bureau |New Delhi |Updated: April 26, 2019 9:43:34 am

Tip for Reading List: Striking a balance on climate change

A review in The New York Times divides the book into three parts — the first elaborating the dangers to civilisation from climate change, the second discussing the “forces opposing solutions to the problems laid out in the first part”, and the third, offering reasons for hope — “foremost among these are solar panels”.

Can we strike a balance on climate change? New book says humans are ill prepared to cope with emerging challenges.

Amid the many books on the climate change apocalypse, here’s one that brings hope — sort of. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by environmentalist Bill McKibben starts out by declaring “This volume is bleak.”