While climate change and global warming have entered the public consciousness over much of the world, it remains very difficult to persuade people that we need to respond to these threats urgently and effectively. Reasons for this reluctance are many and varied. It is "only human" to nurture fond hopes that such changes will not affect us - at least not yet. The question of "who pays" remains unresolved. The world is not united socially or politically and world-centric awareness is still in short supply. So how can anyone hope to influence those for whom the threats remain distant or so uncertain as to render any meaningful response literally unthinkable?rnAustralian journalist Stephan Faris provides one answer to this perplexing question in this short and accessible book. To research it he travelled to many different parts of the world to look at the evidence for himself. He not only found it, he found it in spades, so to speak. As one respondent in Manitoba put it "the evidence just bombards you." The reader, however, is not bombarded. Rather he or she is led through a series of first-hand vignettes, conversations and reports that are brief yet remarkably clear. What emerges from each is a real sense of the "texture" of the situations described.
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