Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse

Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse. David W. Orr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 261 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-539353-8 This is, in so many ways, a very important book. Yet, in the mismatch that its pages reveal between its radical analysis of conditions fuelling runaway climate change and its pragmatic proposals, trimmed for acceptability and political purchase, it is also an unsatisfying book.