What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars | 48 ratings
Price: 19.69
Last update: 12-23-2024
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Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.
Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data and poetry, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you.
With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites listeners to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right?
On imagination, possibility, and transformation with
Paola Antonelli Xiye Bastida Jade Begay Wendell Berry Régine Clément Steve Connell Erica Deeman Abigail Dillen Brian Donahue Jean Flemma Kelly Sims Gallagher Rhiana Gunn-Wright Olalekan Jeyifous Corley Kenna Bryan C. Lee Jr. Franklin Leonard Adam McKay Bill McKibben Kate Marvel Samantha Montano Kate Orff Leah Penniman Marge Piercy Colette Pichon Battle Kendra Pierre-Louis Judith D. Schwartz Jigar Shah Ayisha Siddiqa Bren Smith Oana Stănescu Mustafa Suleyman Jacqueline Woodson
*This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing photographs, diagrams, and an Anti-Apocalypse mixtape.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Top reviews from the United States
5.0 out of 5 stars This book can make you fall in love with the future.
It’s rare to find such a wonderful mix of practicality, imagination, wonky insight, inquisitiveness, wit, joy and keen style in one book. Reading it was deeply enjoyable. It left me convinced that the future could be an incredible place to live, and it gave me a sense of the lengthy to-do list that humanity (you & me & everyone) needs to work through if we’re going to ward off apocalypse and build the world we want.
There’s even a playlist to rock out to while we work!
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
It’s rare to find such a wonderful mix of practicality, imagination, wonky insight, inquisitiveness, wit, joy and keen style in one book. Reading it was deeply enjoyable. It left me convinced that the future could be an incredible place to live, and it gave me a sense of the lengthy to-do list that humanity (you & me & everyone) needs to work through if we’re going to ward off apocalypse and build the world we want.
There’s even a playlist to rock out to while we work!
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Book
5.0 out of 5 stars A Critical, Important and Well-Written Book
5.0 out of 5 stars Climate solutions implementation - sexy!
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is the voice we need
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope, action, inspiration on climate
5.0 out of 5 stars Positive thoughts inspire positive action
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!
"so, go where there is need and where your heart can find a home"
As someone in transition, trying to find my place, how I can best use my skills, I sooooooo appreciate this one sentence and as I continue to read I find inspiration in the poetry, hope, and joy that Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson conveys throughout her book. Strongly recommend to my fellow scientists looking to apply their skills in new ways