"Living Hot: Thriving and Surviving on a Heating Planet", co-authored by Clive Hamilton and George Wilkenfeld, tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it's time to get cracking on making Australia 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.

To get there, we must leave behind both the doomism and the wishful thinking currently holding us back.

In Living Hot, highly respected academic Clive Hamilton and policy consultant George Wilkenfeld shift th emphasis away from reducing carbon emissions and to making Australia is resilient, outlining a vision for an all-embracing and ongoing investment and social change program to protect ourselves from the ravages of a changing climate.

Living Hot is a sober assessment of the challenges we face and a farsighted road map for what we must do next to survive and even thrive on our heating planet.

The above words have been taken, largely, from a review of Hamilton's and Wilkenfeld's thought-provoking book.