Book reviews 

Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope 

by Tim Flannery

Reviewed by Tim Roberts, Australian Book Review 

Tim Flannery’s books are not known for their uplifting qualities.  The Future Eaters (1994) and The Eternal Frontier (2001) both relate the rapid extermination of hapless (yet presumably delicious) megafauna by the human inhabitants of the Australian and North American land masses, while The Weather Makers (2005) grimly catalogues modern humans’ catastrophic effects on Earth’s climate.  Read more