Fellow Alastair McIntosh will be launching his latest book at two upcoming events. Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope, and the Human Condition is published by Birlinn and covers the cultural, psychological, and spiritual aspects of climate change, and how we might begin to heal ourselves and our planet.

Glasgow: Wednesday 25 June, 7:00 pm, GalGael Trust, 15 Fairley St, Ibrox. Mike Russell MSP, Minister for the Environment, will be speaking, so please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possible.

Edinburgh: Wednesday 2 July, 7:15 pm, Word Power bookshop, 43 West Nicolson St.  No RSVP necessary.

The book costs £8.99 and is available from www.birlinn.co.uk.

About the Book: Politics alone is not enough to tacke the likely scale of global warming. The root lies in our addictive consumer mentality: wants have replaced needs to define our very identity. In a breath-taking journey through myth, philosophy and literature, McIntosh reveals the psychohistory of modernity. He shows how our inner lives have fallen prey to a numbing culture of violence and the motivational manipulation of marketing. To address what has become of the human condition we must learn to see beyond despair and even death. Only then will we discover the spiritual meaning of these, our troubled times; only then can a sense of magical and all that gives life start to mend a broken world.