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Book Review: Intervention Earth sets out some uncomfortable truths about climate action

Journalist Gwynne Dyer’s follow-up to 2008’s Climate Wars runs the rule over some possible solutions to global warming

According to Gwynne Dyer, the need to discuss radical climate interventions has become more urgent than ever

Having made his reputation as a military journalist and modern war author over many decades, Gwynne Dyer wrote his first book on climate change in 2008. He himself has said that writing Climate Wars was an eye opening experience, one that prompted him to turn his attention to an issue which he soon realised was much “bigger” than warfare.

Having detailed the social and political ramifications of climate change 16 years ago, Dyer is back ...