The Last Generation

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Pearce is no idle Jeremiah...his book signals a shift of tone in the popular debate...The Last Generation makes you feel that we know enough now to conceive of the problems ahead. And anticipating a problem is half way to being able to do something about it. -- James Flint * The Daily Telegraph * This is the most frightening book that I have ever read...everyone should read this book to find out what is going wrong with the world. -- John Gribbin * The Independent * One of Britain's finest science writers. He is a sceptic of the best sort, saying nothing until he has seen the truth of it for himself. -- Richard Girling * The Sunday Times * A crystal clear wake-up call from one of the finest science writers in the world. * Dr Jeremy Leggett * Apocalyptic in its vision, but never scare-mongering, The Last Generation superbly explains and dramatizes both the causes and the consequences of climate change. One reads it both gripped, and deeply alarmed. * Robert Macfarlane * Pearce's book does a superb job of surveying the evidence which demonstrates that we are changing the world's climate. He gives an engaging, lucid and balanced account, with emphasis on both the certainty that "business as usual will produce basically a different planet" and the uncertainties as to detail, particularly time scales. This is a powerful book about the most important event in human history. Read it. * Professor Lord May OM FRS, Oxford University * We are now at war with Gaia and have no chance whatever of winning. Fred Pearce's scholarly and thoughtful book analyzes the battlefield and will guide us in a sensible retreat to the place where we can negotiate a peace. * James Lovelock * This book is a sober illustration of how little we have actually grasped of the reality of the economic damage and human catastrophe already caused by anthropogenic Climate Change.
In pulling together all the major scientific work from the last 40 years into a coherent and highly readable form, Fred Pearce has sounded the final warning. It is as if we are all on a plane with the auto-pilot set to crash.
Pearce is unashamedly frank in telling it like it is and, even more frighteningly, that it's only going to get worse. This book is a call to action that we dare not ignore. * The Rt Hon John Gummer MP * It is not a book for the faint-hearted, but if you want to read a well-researched book that makes the science accessible and exiting, The Last Generation is an ideal choice. -- Fiona Archer * www.ecozine.co.uk * No one...is suggesting that this is a relaxing read, but it's certainly a necessary one. * The Good Book Guide *