<P><B><I>Living Hot</I> tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making the world resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer communities, find a path through the escalating pressures of a warming world – and even find new ways to flourish.</B></P><P> To get there, we must leave behind both the doomism and the wishful thinking currently holding us back. In <I>Living Hot</I>, highly respected academic <B>Clive Hamilton</B> and policy consultant <B>George Wilkenfeld</B> shift the emphasis away from reducing carbon emissions and on to making the world resilient, outlining a vision for an all-embracing and on-going program of investment and social change to protect ourselves from the ravages of a changing climate. </P><P><I>Living Hot</I> is a sober assessment of the challenges we face, and a