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What if we get it right? : visions of climate futures / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.

Summary:

"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, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financers, architects and advocates help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take-from all 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 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, Ayana invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question, together: What if we get it right?"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593229361
ISBN: 0593229363
Physical Description: xxiii, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : One World, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:	Some illustrations on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-447) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Author's note -- Prelude: an ocean love story -- Possibility. Introduction ; Reality check ; Earth is the best planet ; On another panel about climate, they ask me to sell the future and all I've got is a love poem -- Replenish and re-green. First, nature ; A vision ; Go farm, young people ; Give us back our bones ; Seeds and sovereignty -- If we build it... Neighborhoods and landscapes ; A note from dad ; Design for a changing world ; The AI deluge -- Follow the money. Divest and protest ; Corporations, do better ; Since billionaires exist ; Your tax dollars at work -- Culture is the context. I dream of climate rom-coms ; The planet is the headline ; Dear future ones ; Kids these days ; There is nothing naive about moral clarity -- Changing the rules. Negotiating and leapfrogging ; A green new deal ; A blue new deal ; See you in court -- Community foremost. Disasterology ; Diasporas and home ; This living earth ; Building indigenous power ; proto-farm communities -- Transformation. A note on hope ; An ocean of answers ; To be of use ; Climate oath ; The joyous work ; Away from the brink -- Behind the scenes.