Not Too Late, various authors
Not Too Late, various authors
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Not Too Late
Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Author: various authors, Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Narrator: Soneela Nankani, Patryce Williams, various narrators, Deanna Anthony, Kyla Garcia, Robin Miles, Erin deWard, Vikas Adam, Hillary Huber, Katherine Littrell, Ramón de Ocampo, Jenny Rich, Steven Jay Cohen

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively.In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, this book features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope.Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Anne Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph `Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton.

About Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian.

About Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Thelma Young Lutunatabua is a digital storyteller and social-media manager for 350.org. She supports teams all over the world to tell their own climate stories.

About Soneela Nankani

Soneela Nankani is a classically trained actress who has performed in theaters all over the country as well as in acclaimed films and on television. She is an ensemble member of the award-winning Sojourn Theatre. Soneela has narrated over 100 audiobooks and has garnered four Earphones Awards and an Audie nomination.

About Patryce Williams

Patryce Williams is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City and is a member of the Actors Equity Association.

About Deanna Anthony

Deanna Anthony, an original southern belle and former beauty queen, is an audiobook narrator, actress, singer, dancer, and voice-over artist who lives in Los Angeles, California. Touring by land and sea, both nationally and internationally, she has performed at more than over fifty regional theaters and concert halls. She has appeared in many plays, musicals, independent and industrial films, commercials, and live events. Whether nonfiction or fiction in genre, storytelling is at the essence of what she does every day. Bringing a broad range of skills and a vibrant confidence of delivery, Deanna uses her voice to bring life to art and enjoys the collaborative creative process. Her voice has been described as warm, vibrant, and conversational. Whether delivering inspirational, humorous, or dramatic tones, Deanna remains committed to the text. Her audiobook releases include nonfiction, children's, romance, cozy mystery, poetry, sci-fi genres, and erotica under a pseudonym. When not working in the booth, on camera or in the theater, Deanna teaches voice technique and performance to teens and adults from her home in Los Angeles, and enjoys cooking baking, quilting, reading, and writing with family and friends.

About Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has won several Audie Awards and many Earphones Awards and AudioFile Best of the Year accolades.

About Erin deWard

Erin DeWard is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and a classically trained stage actor. A longtime company member of The Strange Bedfellows, a New York-based Shakespeare company, she can also be found working with The Children's Shakespeare Theater. She has been working in the audio industry as a writer, a voice talent, an advocate for media accessibility for people who are blind, and a trainer for over a decade. She is a proud and grateful member of SAG/AFTRA.

About Vikas Adam

Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor who has performed on stage, film, and television. He has also recorded over one hundred audiobooks, for which he has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including Earphones, various Best of the Year lists, and the Audie Award. When not recording, acting, or directing, he can be found lecturing in the Theater Department at UCLA.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.

About Katherine Littrell

Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the U.K. but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces.

About Ramón de Ocampo

Ramón de Ocampo, a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, has been seen on television, film, and stages worldwide. He has won the Obie Award for his stage work and eleven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration.

About Jenny Rich

Jenny Rich is a Los Angeles-based actor, narrator, and voice-over artist. With a background in film, television, and theater, as well as degrees in business and law, she brings authenticity and life to a diverse range of characters. Her voice spans warm and playful, to smart and conversational. Past adventures performing for children, tweens, and teens, allow her to bring a bright liveliness to children's, middle grade, and young adult material, while her former work as an attorney informs her narration for weightier works. When not performing, Jenny enjoys photography, learning to bake, and trail running with her rescue dog.

About Steven Jay Cohen

Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, kids, and too many pets to mention.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron

Journalist Bounds writes about breaking out of her middle aged malaise through participation in obstacle course racing. Progressing from hoping simply to finish an event to being a competitive age grouper, Bounds checks in with leading sport scientists, researchers and authors and details a lot of c......more

Thanks, Ballantine, for offering me an advanced review copy of this memoir. I loved its message about “humans’ capacity to tap inner reserves, face fears, locate intrinsic motivation, and push boundaries at any life stage.” In her mid-forties, the author outsmarts the “midlife assassin” by choosing a......more

Goodreads review by Darren

Enjoyed this one a lot, although it has made me feel quite lazy.......more

This is a great, inspiring book about doing something with your life instead of just getting old, slow, fat, and sick. This author was only my (current) age when she found herself, a lifelong non-athlete, looking for a challenge to stave off mortality. She found Spartan racing, a type of obstacle co......more

Goodreads review by J

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC. 📚 Gwendolyn Bounds’s “Not Too Late” is a powerful and inspiring exploration of what’s possible when we challenge our perceived limitations. In this science-based memoir, Bounds takes us on her remarkable midlife journey—from an unathletic office e......more


Quotes

“An energizing read that will undoubtedly give you hope—the active type, not the passive kind—for the future.”

Vogue

“Robin Miles and Ramón de Ocampo do excellent work, as does Hillary Huber. Erin deWard—whose voice for Solnit has a tone of drama—is especially convincing…This is an uncommon audiobook that takes on a formidable issue and leaves the listener hopeful.”

AudioFile

“Not Too Late will help you to put you a little more at ease. Exactly as it promises on the cover.”

Harper’s

“Realistic…while also issuing a hopeful call to action so that people can avoid the worst outcomes.”

Foreword Reviews

“A remarkable global group of scientists, activists, artists, organizers, and journalists…redefine the climate movement in a bid to overcome the paralysis of confusion, skepticism, and despair.”

Booklist

“An inspiring guidebook…A book that provides some brightness, passion, and intelligence in dark times.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Absolutely beautiful, absolutely necessary, and absolutely right! Two of our greatest climate voices have rounded up many more realistic and determined colleagues who help us see the path ahead much more clearly!”

Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author

“Not Too Late is the exact message we need today…Grab this book, read up, and let’s get to work.”

Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA

“These authors show us what’s possible…a world where we stop climate change, restore nature, improve human wellbeing, address long-standing problems of equity and justice, and leave our descendants a world we can be proud of.”

Dr. Jonathan Foley, executive director, Project Drawdown

“Giving up on humanity by giving up on solving the climate crisis is not an option. This book uniquely provides strategic direction on how we can create the future we need, the future we all want. It also gives us the imaginative and emotional prowess to strengthen our courage and creativity along the way.”

Don Cheadle, award-winning actor, climate activist, and board member of the Solutions Project