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Review: Earth: The Sequel. The race to reinvent energy and stop global warming by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn

By Fred Pearce

23 April 2008

WHOEVER ends up in the White House will have to enter the battle against climate change, and America’s scriptwriters are already limbering up for the action. Europeans may scoff at US movies showing how the Americans won the second world war with barely a walk-on part for anyone else, but writers are now repeating the pattern in their books on global warming.

Earth: The sequel casts what it calls “the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming” as an American crusade. To be fair, , president of the , and his journalist co-author Miriam Horn,…

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