Losing Earth: A Recent History

Losing Earth: A Recent History

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act. This is their story, and ours.

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet. In this edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession. 

Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. The leaders of the most powerful state in human history are dedicating themselves to destroying the prospects for organized human life. At the same time, there is a solution, which is the Green New Deal.