High Tide

"This was published in 2004 and was, and still is, a fascinating insight into the impact of climate change on real people in their communities. Lynas introduces us to people from places varying from Britain and the Americas to China and islands in the South Pacific and spells out the inter-relationships between the waste-of-energy lifestyles of many in the developed world and the famine and water shortages being experienced by many in the developing world. He also introduces us to climate change refugees – where people have watched their grasslands turn to desert and their fishing lakes disappear as a direct result of the selfish action of others. Also worth mentioning is another one of Lynas’s books – Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet , published in 2007. Now there is an initiative of women leaders, the Climate Wise Women (www.climatewisewomen.org) who tell the story of the impact on their local communities."