I vacillated between feeling this book laid on despair too heavily and feeling that the despair is the only true response. There are a number of topics people prefer not to speak about, and I can think of few that rival climate change. You can casually discuss religion, politics, and gender roles with more comfort than climate change, and perhaps only race rivals the immediate intensity of response.

For that, I think this book is critical reading, and doomed to remain unread by the people who most need to read it.

So my question is, given the audience, would the book benefit from some outline, description, or plan of action for how we who are alarmed, as Wallace says we should be--and we should be--shouldn't there be a "do this" tilt to the text?

It's hard to say I enjoyed this book given the grim outlook, but I was captivated, convinced, stirred, and motivated. Now what do we do with our conviction to take action? How do we retreat from the brink of destruction by warming?