Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (Vintage) – Review
This book puts the current global warming crisis in perspective. While the author acknowledges that global warming is a problem and that solutions should be attentively considered and fully implemented across the world, the problem is not as imminent or destructive as some would have us believe. Moreover, the author remains, the real affects of global warming may still not be deeply felt for many years. Meanwhile, there are more pressing issues that the world is mostly dealing with and can be permanently fixed by humanity. Global resources should be subsequently spent in the areas that we can make a difference in and that affect us today, such as food and water shortages, disease, poverty, energy consumption, population growth and infrastructure development. These are problems that are solvable, but can only be permanently fixed by us if we work together. If the above are not addressed and really resolved by our generation, it actually won’t matter if the ocean rises a few centimeters worldwide fifty years from now, as then too, the world may have larger problems to worry about.