The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Book Overview

A cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015.

The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement's climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525658351
• ISBN13: 9780525658351
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Everyone Needs To Read: The Future We Choose

This book is outstanding. It does an amazing job at throwing you right into the very real scenario of what we will be facing when our atmosphere becomes so toxic that we can't even breathe, jarring and horrifying, but this book is also optimistic. These writers offer small, yet effective ways for us to shrink our carbon footprint, among other things. This book was the best I'd read all year last year (2020), and with the pandemic's end in sight on the distant horizon, all of us need to hear these ideas more than ever if we are to forge a sustainable way forward.