Global warning : the last chance for change

Includes index. Our changing world -- How close is runaway global warming? -- Creating a scorched earth -- Mad, bad, or greedy? -- Even termites are to blame -- We need ice -- Rising tides -- Shellfish on death row -- Extreme events -- Fiddling while the globe burns -- Peak oil and China -- Boom time for jobs and sunrise industries -- Voodoo economics -- What can we do?. 319 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.