This is an introduction textbook suitable for younger audience. As an environmental engineering graduate, I find this to be easy to read and comprehensive enough.

The book is good but i couldn't finish it completely as the interest lost in the middle. Its part because of the writing style and my interests as well. Hence i shouldn't review this one as it wouldn't be fair.

I'm not entirely sure I trust the EPA or that the environment needs protecting. I remember it getting started as a kid back in the 60s and early 70s. Us kids thought it was a great idea! Our parents and grandparents disagreed. They said it would drive good jobs over seas and leave our cities rusting hulls. That has come to pass. And the pollution continues over seas! We all breath the same air and water and no one seems to find this an issue because "it's ok here"! Like I said, it all looks fine to me, too. We just lost more than we got. And the Chicken Littles have been screaming the sky is falling for 60 years now and the lakes are no cleaner (really? you can clean a lake???) But it's safe to drink and bathe and eat fish from the same water. I don't know. Sometimes when I look back, the smoke stacks in our city looked better....

I really wanted to find a useful book on climate issues, in simple and straightforward language that would be easy to understand and provide tips on ways to make small changes. I expected to learn about some of the terminology and some of the things going on around the world. I expected to find ways the every day person could make changes to do their share of improving things. And to be fair I did see some of what I was expecting, but I also found the same old playbook of "Republicans evil, Democrats saints" blah blah blah. Not sure why the author felt the need to soapbox, as all she did was make me reject a lot of her statements. Sadly, this could have been a worthwhile book, but instead it is just a preaching to the choir one. Would not recommend.