Promise the Earth – A Safe Climate in Good Faith – Book Review
Promise the Earth – Safe Climate in Good Faith by Julian Allwood and Andrew Davison, ISBN: 9781009563994, Pages: 236, £15.99
I enjoyed this book very much, though maybe “enjoy” isn’t quite the right word. It’s a book to prick the conscience, to suggest life changes that may be both inconvenient and uncomfortable, but necessary. And to convince us that, unless we embrace such changes, all that we love will be threatened. (“Failure to control emissions will lead to starvation and war.”)
The book itself is a pleasure to handle, nice large print and in no way too “heavy”, since the difficult scientific stuff (difficult, that is, for the likes of me) is placed in a lengthy Appendix, leaving only 150 pages of text in 14 pithy chapters (plus a conclusion).
The authors, respectively an engineer (Julian Allwood) and a theologian (Andrew Davison), wear their learning lightly: you don’t need to be a member of either “club” to take away something valuable. (Such as: “The main things we can do lie where we belong.” “Restraints are the seedbed of creativity.”)
Thank you, both authors, and I hope your collaboration bears fruit.
Martin Davis is a member of Green Christian and lives in Cheltenham
Comments on "Promise the Earth – A Safe Climate in Good Faith – Book Review"
Peter Grimwood:
It looks good to me and with your recommendation and that of Bill Mckibben Iwill add it to the pile on my bedside table.
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