"The truth about our climate crisis is inconvenient because we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. The crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - a true planetary emergency. So why do our leaders seem not to hear the warnings? Is it because the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are ignored. 192 pp. February. "