“Let’s start at the very beginning / A very good place to start,” sings Julie Andrews as she instructs the von Trapp children in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. Two new books on climate change take up this call in a powerful and useful way, providing some “big picture” insights not often gleaned from the wealth of current writing on the topic.

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