Book description
Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever
faced. This book summarises the science of what is happening to the
planet - both globally and using Scotland as a local case study. It
moves on, controversially, to suggest that politics alone is not
enough to tackle the problem. At root is our addictive consumer mentality.
Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish writer and campaigner for social
justice and environmental sustainability. He holds fellowships at the
Centre for Human Ecology, the E. F. Schumacher Society and the Academy
of Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster. In 2005 the
University of Strathclyde gave him an honorary post as Scotland's first
professor of human ecology. He lectures around the world at institutions
including the Russian Academy of Sciences, the World Council of
Churches, WWF International and, for the past decade, teaching
nonviolence on the Advanced Command & Staff Course at Britain's
leading military staff college.
