Charles D. Keeling, who in 1958 began measuring the carbon dioxide concentration in the air. And, of course, all of us who drive cars, who use electricity derived from nonrenewable sources, who would find it extremely difficult to dig up our nice lawns and plant them over with potatoes. It will be shocked and traumatized, but it will survive. But if placed in lukewarm water, and gradually heated, the wretched animal will adjust to the changing temperature without realizing it and end its days as frog soup. The Green message is strong in this book.
All villages are global villages.
The air and the climate cannot be localized. Ultimately, then, solutions must be global. The optimism expressed is guarded. International conferences and agreements are necessary and encouraging, but hardly sufficient. Apparently, there are limits to the compassion of the forgiving air.