Losing Earth

Nathaniel Rich is the author of the books King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue, as well as the novel Losing Earth. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, as well as a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine. He currently resides in New Orleans. Second Nature, Rich's second novel, will be released in March 2021.

We understood almost everything we know today about climate change by 1979, including how to avert it. Over the next decade, a small group of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, put their careers on the line in a desperate, increasing battle to persuade the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their and our tale.

Nathaniel Rich's remarkable history of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and dialogues all across the world—was given its own issue in the New York Times Magazine. It brought to life the moral dimensions of our shared suffering by focusing on the lives of people dealing with the great existential threat of our time.

Among the best books on climate change, Losing Earth explores the human tale of climate change in even fuller, more intimate language. It provides previously revealed details about the origins of climate denialism as well as the origins of the fossil fuel industry's systematic attempt to impede climate policy through misinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The story is carried forward into the present day, struggling with the long shadow of our previous failures and addressing critical issues about how we make meaning of our history, future, and ourselves.

Losing Earth, like John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, is a rare achievement: a captivating work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we arrived here and how we must go.

Author: Nathaniel Rich

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