Green Books

It's getting hot in here

Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet Mark Lynas Fourth Estate, 358pp, £12.99 ISBN 0007209045

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Clear and present danger

Heat: how to stop the planet burning George Monbiot Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 304pp, £17.99 ISBN 0713999233 It may be too late to do anything about global warming. So, rather than pretending it can be stopped, shouldn't we concentrate on coping with the disruption?

Diminishing returns

Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy Matthew R Simmons Wiley, 422pp, £15.99 ISBN 047173876X

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The rich man and the butterfly. Are we trapped on a runaway train? Bjorn Lomborg, self-styled sceptical environmentalist, on why ecologists are wrong to despair about the future of the planet

Rising Tides: a history of the environmental revolution and visions for an ecological age Rory Spowers Canongate Books, 334pp, £14.99 ISBN 184195246X

A vision of hell

A Guide to the End of the World: Everything you never wanted to know Bill McGuire Oxford University Press, 224pp, £11.99 ISBN 0713994436

The great green book

Republished this month, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring jump-started the environmental movement. Colin Tudgeassesses how much - or how little - has changed since 1962