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

Author: Eric Holthaus

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/30/2020


Synopsis

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 what 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 operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

About Eric Holthaus

Eric Holthaus is the leading journalist on all things weather and climate change. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Grist, and The Correspondent, where he currently covers our interconnected relationship with the climate. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 12, 2020

If you're looking for some lightweight Woke Pornography, you may enjoy this book! **Don't read the rest of this review** Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, I found this "optimistic" vision of our climate future is probably the most depressing thing I've read all year. In the book's light Science Fiction mid-section, th......more

Goodreads review by Hákon on February 23, 2021

I have for some time now been immersed in the climate change debate, and I have to admit over time I have come to alternate between cautious optimism, and well, frankly, sorrow or something quite close to it. Listen, I came across an interesting quote by Larry Kudlow in a news article quite recently......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 28, 2021

I am researching climate change for a novel. While this book did not have a ton of reviews, they were still good. I decided to start my research with this book because the author speculates what the earth and sea levels will look like in about 10-year intervals and how we can help reverse it. What I......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on December 24, 2020

In June I was notified that I'd won a copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway. In true 2020 fashion, I didn't actually receive the book until December. In those six months, some of the events Mr. Holthaus writes about (in a speculative fiction sense) did not come true. Luckily, he was right a......more

Goodreads review by Miguel on August 16, 2020

Can a book deal with the issue of climate change in an overly glossy and optimistic manner? Apparently so. The author attempts to make a 3 decade future-looking approach to ‘solving’ the climate crisis and yet the entire time it feels like it barely breaks the surface of the science and hard realiti......more