This is My Planet: A Guide to Global Warming

A starting section summarising How Earth Works, covering the consequences of the rising temperature, the carbon cycle and the water cycle which embody this, the greenhouse gases, and how all this is measured, is followed by sections on the Far North and South, the Ocean, the Land, and People.  In the last section, it is pointed out that ‘Some people in the world, particularly North Americans, use much more than their share of the earth’s resources…’, wherefore ‘Maybe it’s time the developed world managed with less’. However, a map of world carbon dioxide emissions is, perhaps confusingly, colour-coded by emissions per country rather than emissions per capita, and a spread on What You Can Do submits to the Every Little Helps mantra, but on the whole the book admirably supports the Native American proverb recorded on the back cover: ‘We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children’.