Fast Forward: Ethics in the Age of Global Warming

Just as war is too important to leave in the hands of generals, global climate is too important to leave solely in the hands of politicians who are being pulled in a million directions. This pithy yet compelling book makes abundantly clear what we know and don’t know about global warming; why those uncertainties merit prudent but urgent action; how those actions, both at home and abroad, may amount to the most difficult political transaction in the history of mankind; and why “politics as usual” simply will not get the job done.

Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution. He served as deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001. Prior to his service in government, he worked at Time magazine for twenty-one years. He has written nine books, including The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (Random House, 2002), a personal account of U.S. diplomacy toward Russia during the Clinton administration.