Dyer does an excellent job of laying out a set of scenarios, ranging from short term and conservative, to long-term and radical. More importantly, he maps out the security and human consequences of the climate shift we can reasonably expect in the next ten to twenty years. The scenarios, even the milder ones, are disturbing. Dyer bases his projections on a solid, and well documented reading list, along with a wide range of interviews with some of the key experts in the field. He makes a case for urgent response by government, as well as mapping out some of the challenges that response will have to overcome.
I'd like to use this blog as a means to track my own growing awareness of the topic. Climate change seems like the most significant emerging policy file for the next couple of decades. It impinges on industrial, development, security, environmental, and innovation policy, and poses problems of coordination and implementation on a scale I've not seen.
For those of you who haven't read Dyer's book, I'd recommend it as an excellent, and accessible, starting point on the issue.
Dyer, Gwynne. (2008) Climate Wars. Random House.
