We know that climate change is happening. We know that it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions which make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped? In Heat, Monbiot shows that it can. For the first time, he demonstrates that we can achieve the necessary cut - a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 - without bringing civilization to an end... But he also shows that this can happen only with a massive programme of action which no government has yet been prepared to take...