The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet

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One ofThe Observers Thirty books to help us understand the world

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that weve been told we can save the planet. But are individuals really to blame for the climate crisis?

Seventy-one per cent of global emissions come from the same hundred companies, but fossil-fuel companies have taken no responsibility themselves. Instead, they have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change. The result has been disastrous for our planet.

InThe New Climate War, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters fossil-fuel companies, right-wing plu