From LRB, Thomas Jones reviews The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It by Dieter Helm, Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton, and The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live by Brian Stone. Scientists agree on climate change — so why doesn’t everyone else? The climate-change wars begin this summer: Jonathan Chait on how the big partisan fight of the summer will not be over scandals. Ramez Naam on seven reasons why China may be the world leader in fighting climate change. There are therapists who specialize in managing environmental anxiety, but you know what? Let me suffer — I’m not sure I deserve to be psychologically comfortable on this front.
