Product Description
"This book contains a number of quatrains by the national poet Gerrit Komrij, especially written for the sixth UN World Conference on Climate Change. He describes issues related to climate change. The quatrains are illustrated by a series of photographs taken from the IMAXfilm "The Straw that breaks the came's back" made for this conference.
For many years we have been debating the effect of human activites on the Earth's climate system. Climate is changing faster then ever befor. Future projections indicate severe threats on the global scale . An appropriate and effective international responce is required." Jan Pronk. Netherlands Minister for the Environment.
