In Review: Still to Come

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future, Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed., Toronto: Random House Canada, 2009, 224 pages. Reviewed by Peter Robinson.

I FIRST MET Thomas Homer-Dixon, or “Tad” as his friends call him, a few months after I began working at the David Suzuki Foundation. We were back-to-back speakers at a conference on the theme of catastrophic climate change. He spoke first, passionately and persuasively I might add. His presentation was a compendium of current scientific evidence, convincingly illustrated by tables, graphs and a short but dramatic video about the loss of Arctic sea ice. By comparison, my first performance in my new role was tame. ...