Climate change is one of the most critical global security problems today. This book is timely but also frustrating. Pink & Dhofier address the impacts of climate change on human security against the backdrop of the global community’s moral, legal and environmental commitments to climate change mitigation. The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, signed by 196 countries, committed signatories to lowering carbon emissions and global warming. Human security is suggested as a ‘humanitarian counterbalance’ to realpolitik approaches to global politics. Eight case studies – Canada, China, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Egypt, South Africa, and the United States – discuss legislation and mitigation activities. The authors then review climate change threats according to seven categories of human security: food, health, environment, political, personal, economic and community security. Concluding each chapter are interviews with experts and/or policymakers. The cases provide good comparisons of climate change challenges to human security in many parts of the world (South America, Europe, and Oceania are not represented). However, updated overviews of insecurities are not enough. Though the authors demonstrate the relevance of a human security approach to understanding climate change impacts, they insufficiently interrogate possible weaknesses with a human security lens. Not all human beings share ‘universal’ security perspectives, or interest in protecting other people. The new American president was elected on a platform prioritizing individual, exclusionary, personal and economic security at the expense of the environment or human rights. Human security analyses must confront an increasing lack of empathy between some people, what this means for human security, and how to nevertheless strengthen human security in the face of climate change.