By Peter Frankopan
Bloomsbury £30
The birth of my first grandchild is imminent but, frankly, who'd want to be born into the world as it is today?
The planet is, as Peter Frankopan says with some relish, a vale of ‘sorrow and sadness', brought on by acid rain, the threat of nuclear apocalypse, climate change (which on its own ‘threatens the very future of the human family') and a general belief that ‘Entire ecosystems are collapsing.'
To which the only possible reaction is: so what? Beginning his story several
