The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity

摘要

This intriguing book addresses itself to both of these inextricably intertwined topics explicitly and equally. Author Jorg Fried-richs is a lecturer in international development at the University of Oxford, and his book-although re- plete with research results on climate stress and energy or resource scarcity in the past-does not tread lightly or mince words. "Facing the future is not for wimps," Friedrichs writes. "Denial and wishful thinking are for normal times, but when the going gets tough we have to let them go."