George Monbiot's new book, "HEAT", has an entertaining and challenging conclusion at the end of the introduction:

"I have one purpose in writing this book: to persuade you that climate change is worth fighting. I hope I have been able to demonstrate that it is not... too late. I hope to prompt you to...force our government to reverse their policies.

Failing all that, I have one last hope: that I might make people so depressed about the state of the planet that they stay in bed all day, thereby reducing their consumption of fossil fuels."

There are shocking revelations about the activities of certain oil and cigarette companies which have cynically funded what Monbiot calls the "professional denial industry". He accuses them of delaying effective global action on climate change by several years.