Hi,
I couldn’t be more excited. My first book, The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming, comes out on 30 June of this year. In this climate emergency, we need to move from doom into courage. In this book, I try to lay out a vision of what that will look like.
Right now, it feels like our world is careening towards dystopia. Democracy is in shambles. We are in a crisis of public and planetary health. Inequality and racism and colonialism have left us marginalised and broken.
None of this is inevitable.
We can, and will, repair our world.
Writing this book has been a six-year journey spanning my entire journalistic career: listening, learning, and processing collective pain in our era of climate emergency. I spilled so many tears bringing it to life.
Writing this book changed me. It’s my love letter to the world.
Specifically, this book is a step-by-step journey through the next 30 years — how will this revolution start? what will this era of radical change feel like? how will we learn to care about each other again? — in a similar style as this preview of the 2020s I wrote for The Correspondent a few weeks ago.
What I learned, through hundreds of interviews with dozens of people all around the world, is that we already have the tools we need to change everything. It will be difficult to amass revolutionary power. It will take courage and solidarity. But it is possible, and so it must happen.
This is a book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of the world. It is my invitation to imagine how you fit into a deeper relationship with the Earth and each other.
I hope it changes you as much as it changed me.
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