The Future Earth A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

Eric Holthaus

eBook - 2020

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus ("the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology"—Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows w...hat the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face. - What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade? - What could living in a city look like in 2030? - How could the world... more