Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change

There are of course the pernicious effects of business power, money politics, and bureaucratic inertia, says Hamilton (public ethics, Australian National U.), but none of these can explain fully why almost everyone in the world agrees that the world is about to undergo catastrophic changes, then go back to whatever it was they were doing. Despite all pretensions to rationality, he argues, scientific facts are fighting against more powerful forces. He looks at not escaping the science, growth fetishism, the consumer self, many forms of denial, disconnection from nature, whether there is a way out, the four-degree world, and reconstructing a future. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)