Global warming

"It is painfully difficult to decide whether to abandon some of one's core values when they seem to be becoming incompatible with survival. At what point do we as individuals prefer to die than to compromise and live?" Jared Diamond, Collapse, p. 433.

Suggested for reading and discussion:

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. Read the last three chapters first.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006. And, of course, see the movie.

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.

Lovelock, James. The Revenge of Gaia: Why the earth is fighting back--and how we can still save humanity. London: Allen Lane, 2006. This book is not available in the US; order it from Canada.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, nature, and climate change. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.

Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.