“We live on an earth where the cheapest way to produce power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun; the second-cheapest is to let the breeze created by the sun’s heating turn the blade of a wind turbine,” writes the veteran activist and climate scholar Bill McKibben in his most hopeful book yet. If ever there were a book to assuage your climate anxiety – if only a little – it’s this one. In short succinct chapters McKibben maps out the phenomenal rise of the technologies that were once classified as “alternative” – and makes a powerful case that the revolution under way heralds a swerve that may yet save us from the apocalyptic scenarios conjured by fossil fuel growth.
