'Can Do' and 'Can't Do' Responses to Climate Change

A review essay on books by (1) Eileen Claussen (Ed), Climate Change: Science, Strategies & Solutions (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001); (2) John Firor & Judith E. Jacobsen The Crowded Greenhouse: Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World (New Haven, CT: Yale U Press, 2002); (3) Marcel Kok, Walter Vermeulen, Andre Faaij, & David de Jager (Eds), Global Warming and Social Innovation: The Challenge of a Climate-Neutral Society (London: Earthscan, 2002); (4) Urs Luterbacher & Detlef F. Sprinz, International Relations and Global Climate Change (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001); (5) Mark J. Mwandosya, Survival Emissions: A Perspective from the South on Global Climate Change Negotiations (Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Centre Energy, Environment, Science & Technology, 2000); & (6) David Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 2001).