A manifesto on global warming and climate justice, focusing on activists in communities suffering the worst effects of climate change, from a former president of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Robinson is uniquely qualified to write about the international fight for climate-change justice. Rather than dwell on her own perspective, however, she has smartly chosen to highlight the lives and work of several individuals who are at the heart of this worldwide struggle ... As the book makes clear, indigenous peoples and those in more remote or rural regions suffer the most, but are all too often considered the least. Robinson makes a solid effort to change that unjust paradigm in a narrative that, given its engaging individuals and their compelling narratives, is a surefire winner.
Robinson’s tone throughout is hopeful and optimistic, as one story after another finds accidental activists, primarily women, changing their own lives as well as those of their communities, accepting both the challenge and the responsibility of confronting the threat. In a measured tone that is largely free of politicized rhetoric, the author tells engaging stories of extraordinary accomplishments by ordinary people.
...[a] succinct but powerful volume ... This brief but cogent account reminds readers that climate change is not academic or abstract; it is real and it has consequences.
