By Dr. Peter D.Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth; Clarity Press, Atlanta Ga.;2018

Every Climate activist needs to read this book. It is a readable compendium of the crucial facts from the reports of the IPCC and Nicholas Stern. The authors do a good job of indicting as criminals the corporations, the governments at national and other levels and even the media for their concerted efforts to avoid dealing with climate change. The north American and even Canadian media are well and truly indicted here. The banks are indicted for their financial support of the fossil fuel industry and the ensuing destruction of our ecosystem, hence food supply. They also indict the rest of us for our moral failure – as simple as the $400 a ton subsidy of all air travel, which subsidy burden falls on the poorest of the world. The richest 1% (us) emit at 175 times what the poorest emit.

The authors are pretty thorough at describing what needs to be done and who needs to do it. There are actions all of us can take in our personal lives. Still, the heavy lifting has to be from governments, mainly senior governments who can negotiate on the international level. Our provincial government needs, of course, to cancel its LNG projects to prevent their huge increase to emissions from B.C. (at least 50%). What the authors can’t give us is a way to persuade government to get on with the job immediately. So the fear is that they will drag their heels until it is too late, so the cost to our health and our economy is enormous, far more that the cost of retooling our energy structure now.