Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do
Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do – Review
During a conversation in Washington, DC in 1988, I was momentarily stunned by how succinctly my former professor Carl Sagan was able to summarize the behavior of bureaucrats inside the U.S. Government. After really listening quietly to my rant about inactions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of acid rain and global warming, Sagan only offered the immediately following one-liner: “Bureaucratic Ecocide.” Joe Romm’s convincing, straight-forward and extremely well-written book repeats me of Sagan’s ability to cut to the quick of a matter like a laser beam. Romm writes with precision and insight about a difficult subject. This gift is usually made all the more precious to us because of the layers of obfuscation, half-truths and outright lies of the “Deniers and Delayers.” Because of the difficulty of the subject and the murky job done to date by the press, Romm’s talent to clarify shines like a beacon to all thinkers on the planet. Read this book – for yourself and for the generations yet to come. Then take action.