Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

by Bill McKibben

Book Overview

Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world's greatest threat

Hurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805087044
• ISBN13: 9780805087048
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting, useful, and highly readable

This wonderful book is equally useful for those who are just beginning to learn about Global Warming and for those who are are already activists. The first couple of chapters give a clear and persuasive explanation of what is causing climate change and the impact these changes will have in the future. The balance of the book offers specific and helpful advise to those who want to do something!

Global Warming Handbook for Action

Bill Mckibben and students have written a good handbook for activists and potential activists on how to gain public attention on the issue of global warming. The book describes how the "Step It Up" campaign began, and how they operated on a shoestring budget, with few organizers and little time. (The Step It Up campaign is a public awareness effort at the grass roots level to convince congress to pass laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by the year 2050.) I had not heard of the Step It Up campaign before reading this book, so it's questionable on how effective their efforts were. As a "how-to" type book, I'm guessing it might be useful if you've never participated in an activist group before (as I have not). If you have already participated in the Step It Up campaign, this book is probably not necessary for you to read. The book contains very little climate change science, or even descriptions on what climate change may bring if not controlled. It is definitely a quick read on ideas for community activism.