The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is
entirely human-caused.
Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”—Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face. 

• What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade?
• What could living in a city look like in 2030?
• How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?

This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist and one of the most-followed climate journalists in the world. He received his meteorology degree from Saint Louis University and a masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Slate, Grist, and The Correspondent.

In 2021, building on ideas in THE FUTURE EARTH, he founded Currently as a weather service for the climate emergency — to expand access to life-saving and life-giving weather information to as many people and businesses and organizations as possible, in as many countries and languages as possible, all over the world. He lives with his family and two cats in Minneapolis, Minnesota.