Although I am fairly biased, this book being written by my father, I still strongly recommend it. One simple reason: I thought he was a bit of a loon about the severity of climate change when he spoke passionately about it some 10 years ago. His basic premise, and that of the book, is that it’s all coming much faster than even the more intelligent of us thought. As many of us are now aware, we will see extreme effects from climate change within our lifetimes. This sounded outlandish a decade ago, and I imagine in another decade’s time our collective lethargy will seem outright criminal.

Some lovely parts of note: He often writes in a digital-haiku style, limited to 160 characters, including spaces, which is the text-limit of his cell phone. One such haiku reads: “Intelligence of the human species can be defined with good precision: it is high enough to fatally damage its natural habitat, but too low to repair the damage.”

The book is written in bite-sized chunks, a format that follows the writing style that he introduced in 1976, which can be found at http://www.residua.org. This makes for lively jumps between the various nuances of the subject matter, an ultimately very entertaining read about the impending doom we’ve so blithely created for our planet,

From Marko Bon’s Amazon review of Ranko Bon’s What Is to Be Done? Climate Change for Beginners, Belgrade: HESPERIAedu, 2014.