Save yourself eight hours of aggravation and avoid purchasing the Audible version of this book. The author is a horrible reader and the entire book sounds like an advanced undergraduate student attempting to sound erudite at an academic conference.

Beyond that, I found this book mostly in the alarmist, doomsday vein that constantly veered back and forth between worst case scenarios and more hedged bets on what our future will hold. He also seems to blame capitalist, free-market economies for the majority of our climate change problems while giving the command economies of the twentieth century a free pass on carbon contributions.

The author comes across as smug by filling the narrative with unnecessary name dropping, theory dropping, run-on sentences and run-on paragraphs. I doubt this book will convince climate change deniers and offers little in the way of solutions for climate change activists. Well, he does seem to believe that “governments can do something about it if they only try.”

What a let down.