Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden Allen Lane, 336 pages, £20
Following the collapse of the eastern bloc in 1989, a number of commentators contended that the post-Cold War period should be considered the “Age of Environment”, because of the historically unprecedented scale and pace of humangenerated environmental changes seen in the latter 20th century and into the early 21st. In his latest book on the contemporary history of climate change, veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden cuts through the thickets of information to deftly guide the reader towards knowledge that is urgently required in this troubling age.