Notes On Business Studies

Notes On Business Studies

Notes On Business Studies

It’s hard to imagine another mass-market book that addresses the issue of global warming more completely than Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), but that’s not what Elizabeth Kolbert aims to do in “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change” (2006, Bloomsbury).

If Gore’s work can be compared to a Leonardo da Vinci drawing – exacting, even excruciating, detail and a straight-up rendering of reality, warts and all – then Kolbert’s effort is more Monet: broad strokes and impressionistic depictions. Stand back a bit, though, and the picture Kolbert paints is just as compelling as Gore’s: the Earth’s climate is changing in unprecedented (from the perspective of human history) ways, and our actions are driving that change.