This is an ideal resource book for teachers to use in helping children understand that the future of the earth lies in their hands. The book explains sustainable development in easy-to-understand terms and includes thirty-six of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s panoramic photographs taken from the air. It includes 80 pages of full colour illustrations and encourages young readers to understand what is happening in the environment and to take action. Readers are taken on an unforgettable tour of locations as different as Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Mali and Western Europe. The images and text testify to the urgency with which we must each change our behaviour in our daily lives, so that we don’t compromise the future of the earth and its people. Each page presents another part of the world and the global concerns which impact on it. It also illustrates the beginning of solutions to the many problems our planet faces.