Welcome back to Wicked Problems. The climate tech show not afraid to ask the big questions. Like, what last-minute gifts should climate nerds ask Santa to bring them?
We asked to Ben Cooke, who writes about climate tech and the environment at The Times, to talk through his recommended books of the year:
The Deluge, by Stephen Markley
Simon & Schuster, £26
A climate thriller that goes much faster than its 900 pages might suggest. “It's really, it's really worth it”. Ben adds:
“The world descends into climate chaos and nihilistic populism stemming from that climate chaos. Basically the challenge that Stephen Markley, the author, has set himself is imagining how we might go deeper and deeper into some of those worst aspects of our present moment and then how we might actually get out the other side, and in some way resolve the climate crisis. And I think what's amazing about the deluge is the way Stephen Markley manages to do two things at once.
He manages to t…
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