Book review: Fragile Planet

Fragile Planet: The impact of climate change is a little different from the books I usually review here. It’s a book of photos showing the unfolding effects of climate change, drawn from all over the world. It’s also a book that gave my son the fear, and so it’s not going to be one that gets left out on the coffee table.

As the fires on the front cover make clear, this is a fairly unflinching set of images. We are presented with flooded slums and inundated highways, satellite imagery of cyclones...