Hidden Hand Av Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg

Goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years.

<P><B>Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, <I>Provocateur</I>, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action...

<p>Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch ¿ the Anthropocene ¿ one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish...

Thoroughly researched and powerfully argued, Silent Invasion is a sobering examination of the mounting threats to democratic freedoms Australians have for too long taken for granted