Carbon Shift sounds like another heavy read

While working on a few birdhouses in the shed last week I listened to an interview between a CBC Radio host and Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down.

Mr. Homer-Dixon was promoting his latest work, Carbon Shift.

I looked it up online @ Random House. The following two quotes and short blurbs were featured:


“We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die.” 


—James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia



“I don’t see why people are so worried about global warming destroying the planet — peak oil will take care of that.”


Matthew Simmons, energy investment banker and author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

The blurb - 
The twin crises of climate change and peaking oil production are converging on us. If they are not to cook the planet and topple our civilization, we will need informed and decisive policies, clear-sighted innovation, and a lucid understanding of what is at stake. We will need to know where we stand, and which direction we should start out in. These are the questions Carbon Shift addresses.

Another heavy read, eh? I think if I finish a few pages per night while riding my exercise bike I should be done by August.

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