A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explains what is preventing us from solving the problem of global warming and offers a prescription for saving the planet. In Planet Fever, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan claims that climate change is the issue that, unchecked, will swamp all other issues facing us today.

It would create millions of jobs and raise living standards in poor countries whose populations are affected by climate-driven disease epidemics and whose borders are overrun by environmental refugees. It would also expand the global economy and lead to a far wealthier and more peaceful world. A passionate call-to-arms and a thoughtful roadmap for change, Boiling Point reveals what's at stake for our fragile planet.