Review: Seven Years to Save the Planet by Bill McGuire

BILL MCGUIRE has a track record of writing about disasters. It is only six years since his A Guide to the End of the World was published. Now, having sidelined the threats of supervolcanoes, a new ice age, asteroids and giant tsunamis, he has put his money on death by global warming. Why seven years to save the planet? Unless global carbon dioxide emissions start declining by 2015, we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change. It’s as good a guess as anyone’s. This is partly a handbook on how to prevent the worst, but McGuire’s pithy prose is best deployed…