All the eco time bombs tick away in John Harte’s The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey (University of California Press, £10.95/$12.95, ISBN 0 520 20551 0)—from CFCs to badly-sited golf courses. We’re murdering Mother Earth, but don’t worry. We don’t get away with it.
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