In this extraordinary hopeful book Britain's leading climate advocate and environmentalist
Tony Juniper identifies the real problem at the heart of the issue - equality. Climate change
has already begun detrimentally affecting everybody's lives and problems such as energy prices
fuel poverty heatwaves wildfires and migrations are only going to get worse. There is a
central question at the heart of our predicament. How can we give people the lives that they
deserve without providing fast and cheap energy that will ultimately hasten global collapse?
How can we ask those in developing countries not to partake in the environmentally-damaging
technology such as air conditioning which will become essential to living in hotter climates?
And how can we manage the enormous migration as so-called ?wet bulb' temperatures in which
humans cannot exist become prevalent in equatorial nations? The answer lies in equality. A
focus on growth as the answer to humanity's problems has led to an ever-widening gap between
the rich and the poor across the world. Social disparities are now harnessed to reject the need
for environmental action at all. We need to break the trap that capitalism has set for the
environment while finding a way to save the ecosystem we rely upon for our existence. With an
extraordinary range of interviews with experts from multiple fields and drawing on 40 years of
the author's own participation in government summits and activism this book explains how to
achieve real change.
