Climate change, food security, carbon footprints, environmental justice, global warming-today's hotly debated topics generate lots of discussions, opinions, and emotions, yet provide few real solutions. In our quest to fix the problem, do we invariably end up creating another?

Without judgment, Ross West tackles these complicated issues through fifteen timely and thought-provoking tales, each written from various viewpoints that illustrate how the problem affects everyone-from businesses and industry to workers, families, and endangered species-in big and small ways. The stories raise complicated and nuanced questions, exist in the perplexing shadowlands of unintended consequences, and explore the fault lines where vague notions of a better future world collide with the immediate, crushing, and all-too-human passions of a desperate moment.

Although there are no simple or easy solutions, The Fragile, Blue Dot-Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere presents compelling narratives for change that will stay with you long after you've read the final page.