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Heat | Reviews
PRAISE FOR HEAT:
HOW TO STOP THE PLANET FROM BURNING
“George Monbiot’s new book Heat picks up where Al Gore left off.”
—David Morris, AlterNet
“Avoiding disastrous climate change is the central challenge of our time. George Monbiot addresses it with wit, verve, and rigor. He shows that all of our excuses for inaction are just that—excuses. If you care about the future of the planet, you should read Heat, and then give a copy to a friend.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
“George Monbiot is one of the real heroes of the fight against global
warming; he has faced the reality of climate change much more squarely than
most, and written a book that offers true hope precisely because it deals with
the true facts, not a make-believe set that would be easier to work around. A
courageous and a necessary book!”
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
“With a dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people, George Monbiot writes about social change with his eyes wide open.”
—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
“George Monbiot’s clear-eyed and uncompromising book lays out a prescription for avoiding climate catastrophe that US policymakers and the public desperately need to hear.”
—Kassie R. Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity
“This book is a brilliant and terrifying critique of the crisis of human-induced climate change, and the prospects of stabilizing temperatures before catastrophic runaway warming ensues. George Monbiot brushes aside our rationalizations to maintain the status quo, shallow targets and mechanisms, and the empty promises of political rhetoric and corporate PR spin, to examine the real opportunities and what has to be done to achieve up to 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the industrialized nations.”
—David Suzuki, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation
“George Monbiot has written a stunning book. It could easily be titled The End of Hypocrisy, because Monbiot systematically unveils the denial, deceit, and self-delusion that are our common responses to the enormous challenge of global warming…. Then with a step-by-step plan grounded in the latest research he explains how we can achieve a 90 percent reduction—in our vehicles, factories, retail centers, and homes—without wrecking our standard of living. When it comes to global warming, it’s time to stop being hypocrites and get on with saving the planet, and this book shows us how.”
—Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down
“I was hooked right away. It’s by far the best single source on climate change that I’ve read: rigorously researched, honestly argued, and very well written.”
—Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
“Monbiot is ahead of the pack. Instead of just warning us about climate change, he lays out clearly and engagingly what we can still do to stop it. This powerful book is for anyone serious about confronting what appears to be the most urgent crisis of our time.”
—Linda McQuaig, author of It’s the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way
“This year’s eco-heavyweight, George Monbiot’s Heat, [is] the most powerful treatise yet on the gravity of global warming. He demolishes any ground left to climate change deniers.… I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change.”
—The Times (London)
“Each furious chapter in Heat throws out more intellectual challenges by the page than the Canadian media does in a year.… Uncompromising in its message, intelligence, and honesty. Parents… should consider it required reading.”
—The Globe & Mail
“A book that anyone who thinks they know what should be done about global warming must read.”
—The New Statesman
“Well-researched and worth reading for the detailed technical analysis showing just how [the country] could cut its greenhouse gas output and still enjoy the comforts of modern life.”
—The Financial Times
“Monbiot is one of the best-informed people on the planet about climate change, and Heat is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the measures needed to deal with this, our most pressing environmental problem.”
—The Scotsman
“In searching for solutions, Monbiot is wonderfully skeptical of anyone with a commericial issue interest in the outcome. Any theory has to be backed up with proper peer-reviewed papers. He is also suitably scathing of those environmentals who talk the talk but then fly the jet.”
—The Irish Times
“George Monbiot’s ‘manifesto for action’ is the most essential reading in a fresh crop of books on climate change.”
—The Observer
“Heat is a solidly researched manifesto for change… The combination of practical detail and creative thinking is immensely impressive.”
—The Guardian
“The most ambitious and provocative of the bunch,… [only Heat] attempts to construct a world that has rescued itself from climate change.”
—The Toronto Star
“Heat is a powerful and practical exhortation to save the planet, and ourselves. There is a lot of science, a lot of math, a lot of of technology, but it’s written with a journalist’s ease and some wit mixed with rancour. Buy it today.”
—The Bookbag
THE WORLD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
“A broad array of...experts said the latest analysis was the most sobering view yet of a century in which thousands of years of relatively stable climate conditions will suddenly be replaced by a new normalcy of continual change.”
—The New York Times on IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (February 2007)
“To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war.... The environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.”
—UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix
“Our house is burning down and we’re blind to it... The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all the continents…. We cannot say that we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refused to fight it.”
—French President Jacques Chirac
“The most populous and wealthiest of the world face a moral challenge greater than colonialism or slavery. They are failing in that challenge. Men have lost reason in the fossil fuel economy. Materialism and self-interest are winning out over social justice.… Inhabitants of small islands have not agreed [to be] sacrificial lambs on the altar of the wealth of the rich.”
—Ambassador of Antigua-Barbuda, Lionel Hurst
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