"These books provide insights and analysis about climate politics and the policies that can lead to change."
"For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral politics.
This bookshelf presents the titles on climate action – or perhaps we should say inaction.
Scientists and concerned citizens have been crying out for action on climate change for so long – for decades, in fact – that several histories of American inaction have now been written. The most recent of these is “Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics.” Even regular readers of this monthly column will be surprised by how far back the story told by environmental policy analyst Chelsea Henderson goes.
There have been bright spots, the Paris Climate Agreement, for one. President Obama’s Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern provides a firsthand account of the American side of those negotiations. Nevertheless, the available evidence indicates that we will “overshoot” the temperature targets set in the agreement, both the preferred (below 1.5°C) and the fallback (2°C) targets. In their new book, activists and academics Wim Carton and Andreas Malm play out the consequences of inaction going forward."
Michael Svoboda reports for Yale Climate Connections October 28, 2024.
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