Earth under Fire How Global Warming Is Changing the World, Updated Edition

“While the science underlying global warming is complex, its impact is made comprehensible in this richly photographic blend of memoir and reportage.”—Booklist

“Braasch uses his award-winning skill behind the camera to produce a practical, level-headed and thorough overview of the current state of global warming, from a ground-level definition to stunning images of its effects.”—Publishers Weekly

“The almost 300-page book documents the ongoing environmental changes around the world, including efforts to reduce them, with more than 100 eye-popping photographs taken in 22 countries from four continents . . . a well-researched book with in-depth texts on the science behind climate change and how it impacts people’s lives worldwide, including its larger implications for businesses, governments, and societies.”—UN Chronicle

“Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World is a personal record . . . of the consequences of modern affluence on this planet we call home. Read this book and your head will be swimming, just like weary polar bears, outside of ones’s usual realm.”—Treehugger.com

“Nothing takes climate change out of the abstract quite as effectively as photographs. . . . Photojournalist Gary Braasch spent eight years observing and documenting the evidence and impacts of global warming . . . The result is a meticulously researched, visually stunning work that performs the equally important tasks of convincing the reader of the scope of the problem and the urgent need to tackle it, as well as prescribing how to do that.”—Canwest News Service

“A meticulously researched, visually stunning work that performs the equally important tasks of convincing the reader of the scope of the problem and the urgent need to tackle it, as well as prescribing how to do that.”—Saskatoon Star Phoenix

"The power of Gary Braasch's personal witness to the climate crisis makes this essential reading for every citizen."—Al Gore

“Earth under Fire is an important work documenting climate change. With an accessible text and startling photographs, it takes the reader on a world tour of the human effect on our climate.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Braasch's descriptions and photographs of how climate change is unraveling ecosystems and human lives make real and vivid what for too many remains speculative and abstract. Each deeply researched story—the rising suicide rate in a melting Inuit village, fields of European butterflies killed by a false spring, coastal houses falling into the sea in North Carolina—becomes a memorable character in a rapidly unfolding drama that threatens to engulf us all."—Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

"There are scant books equal to the task of spelling out the greatest challenge in human history-global climate change. Rarer still is an author who can both write and photograph it, seamlessly marrying text and images. Earth under Fire is that rare book."—Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and The Ecology of Commerce

"This is a well-written description of the effects of human-driven climate change on our all-too-vulnerable planet. The pictures give a marvelously direct account of what is happening almost before our eyes."—Sir Crispin Tickell, former British Ambassador to the United Nations

"Global warming has found its Baedeker in Gary Braasch. Braasch has traveled all over our changing world and recorded in word and photograph what's going on. We all need to see what he saw, and Earth under Fire does a beautiful job of that."—James Gustave Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment