TIM FLANNERY
NOW OR NEVER (Atlantic Monthly Press, $18)
From Jared Diamond’s alarming discussion of Collapse in 2004 to Tim Flannery’s new book
Now or Never, Politics and Prose has been sponsoring efforts to prevent climate change. When Jared Diamond spoke, his message about civilizations that seed their own destruction with their abuse of the environment strongly resonated with us. Tim Flannery’s
The Weather Makers had a similar impact, as he called our attention to the effect of polar ice caps breaking up and the catastrophic effects of warming oceans.
We started a
Climate Action Project that meets once a month, educating ourselves and our community and taking action at the local level. We have participated in community, city, and regional activities through the Politics and Prose Climate Action Project led by John Macgregor,
Tim Flannery lays out the challenge: “In the next forty to ninety years humanity will exceed…the capacity of Earth to supply our needs, thereby greatly exacerbating the risk of widespread starvation…”
