Giddens and the Developing Nations Examine Global Warming

Books on climate change are coming out at an increasing rate, and in my mind we cannot get enough of them. I see climate change as the problem that trumps all others for the next few decades. Indeed, predicted warming increases will exacerbate most of our other major problems such as HIV/AIDS, pandemics, malnutrition, income inequality within and between nations, gender inequality and so on. So we should be glad to see an eminent sociologist, Anthony Giddens, authoring a book on global warming; sociologists have neglected the topic. As the first by a major sociological theorist, Bill Clintonʼs blurb correctly calls it a “landmark study.”