Professor Bob Evans, from the Northumbria University in the UK, has joined the environmental planning programme at Waikato.   WELCOME BOB EVANS!

This is an intelligent book that faces up to the impending challenges of global warming with clear-eyed courage.  Clive Hamilton is an Australian author who is Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philsophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University. 

It is not a catalogue of the evidence for global warming and climate change; rather, it follows the philosophy that it is better to accept catastrophe than try to deny.  By denial and avoidance, we make the future worse than it needs to be.  This book accepts that we are already on an unavoidable trajectory to catastrophe; the CO2 already in the atmosphere will take thousands of years to dissipate, and bring about changes to climate and sea level rise that we cannot avoid.