Book Review

The Climate Book: High-profile contributors give the ‘biggest story in the world’ real clout

Greta Thunberg’s comprehensive handbook on the climate emergency is fresh, persuasive and shocking

Greta Thunberg: the young climate change activist succeeds in capturing the totality of the global climate and biodiversity emergency in a single volume, The Climate Book. Picture: Getty

Given its enormity, complexity and gravity, only the brave or foolhardy would try to capture the totality of the global climate and biodiversity emergency in a single volume. The Climate Book, the creation of the teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, is as brave as it is accomplished and succeeds well beyond any reasonable expectation.

Then again, the young Swedish activist is no ordinary author. In her four short years in the public domain, Thunberg has ...