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Gudrun April 7, 2010 at 11:29 PM Hi - here is a link to the book on Earthscan's website: www.earthscan.co.uk/requiem Reply Delete

Hi - here is a link to the book on Earthscan's website: www.earthscan.co.uk/requiem

Anonymous April 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM I have just read "Requiem for a Species" and found it quite depressing - though I can't see any holes in his logic. One area that you haven't mentioned is his chapter on geoengineering - which is starting to sound ominously inevitable too. It looms as the last solution to the problem we have failed to prevent. Reply Delete

I have just read "Requiem for a Species" and found it quite depressing - though I can't see any holes in his logic. One area that you haven't mentioned is his chapter on geoengineering - which is starting to sound ominously inevitable too. It looms as the last solution to the problem we have failed to prevent.

Gaskell July 14, 2010 at 10:26 PM Shingleton not once mentions the Fossil Fuel industry, which is the cause of all the gloom in Hamilton's book. And while Hamilton does mention this lobby as a major 'truth' we are 'resisting' to confront over Climate Change, the strongest suggestion he can make in seeking to prevent humanity from boiling to extinction - like the proverbial frog in a gradually heating beaker of water - is on p218: "I urge the mobilisation of a mass movement to build a countervailing power to the elites and corporations that have captured government". Although such a movement is likely to be formed far too late to prevent a continued slide towards sapiens's self-annhilation, Clive does widen the scope of the climate problem considerably, especially into the taboos against mentioning the evils of growth: especially growths of population, corporations and GDPs. This is a necessary and significant book, but its sequel is urgently called for: how we totally replace coal and oil with completely non-Greenhouse energy sources for electricity and transport, respectively. If anyone can do it, Clive can, and with humour this time. Reply Delete

Shingleton not once mentions the Fossil Fuel industry, which is the cause of all the gloom in Hamilton's book. And while Hamilton does mention this lobby as a major 'truth' we are 'resisting' to confront over Climate Change, the strongest suggestion he can make in seeking to prevent humanity from boiling to extinction - like the proverbial frog in a gradually heating beaker of water - is on p218: "I urge the mobilisation of a mass movement to build a countervailing power to the elites and corporations that have captured government". Although such a movement is likely to be formed far too late to prevent a continued slide towards sapiens's self-annhilation, Clive does widen the scope of the climate problem considerably, especially into the taboos against mentioning the evils of growth: especially growths of population, corporations and GDPs. This is a necessary and significant book, but its sequel is urgently called for: how we totally replace coal and oil with completely non-Greenhouse energy sources for electricity and transport, respectively. If anyone can do it, Clive can, and with humour this time.

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