How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth
by Tim Flannery
Review by Brian Wright
The paleoclimate record shouts out to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climatic system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
— Wallace Broecker, Cooling the Tropics
A lot of Old Guard liberty sorts, believing in the Infinite Sink and wide open spaces forever (or being susceptible to overwrought, self-serving oil-cartel propaganda), don’t even like the word environmentalism. Let’s call it conservationism then….