Boiling Point

Reviewed by Luanne Armstrong

In Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster (Basic Books) by Ross Gelbspan, the intricate politics of oil and money that drive the governmental policies of our day are explicated endlessly, to accompany a somewhat desperate description of what global warming is already doing to the world’s ecosystems.