Hope dies last : visionary people across the world, fighting to find us a future / Alan Weisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisman, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Human ecology.

Climatic changes.

climate change.

Physical Description:

xi, 498 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Visionary people across the world, fighting to find us a future

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025]

Summary:

"In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of the precarious state of our planet and what it means to be a human on the front lines of this existential crisis. His new book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core optimism of the human species against the worst odds we have ever faced. To write this book, Weisman has traveled the globe witnessing the devastation of climate change and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to wetlands renewal in Iraq, and from the Netherlands to the Korean DMZ to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has witnessed personally the best of humanity battling the heat, the hunger, and the rising tides. He profiles the work of big thinkers--engineers, scientists, economists, and psychiatrists--as they devise innovative and wildly creative responses to an uncertain and frightening future. We are at an unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet are leading us to our own undoing, and we could be one of the species marching toward extinction. A remedy to climate anxiety by one of our most important voices on humans' relationship with the Earth, Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Now that we have passed the point of no return in our battle against climate change, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cradle to grave

Against all hope

Food from thin air

Ark builders

Star time

On the reef

Going Dutch

A line runs through it

The plan and the sun

Pivoting

Xnois

Umami

A tale of three cities

The Atolls' legacy

Hope dies last.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-482) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Weisman, Alan. Hope dies last

ISBN:

9781524746698

152474669X

OCLC:

1507843211