Ecology & Green Politics

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.

This new volume in The
Big Idea series surveys
the detrimental impact
humans have had on
the planet and evaluates
what we can do to
reverse the damage.

An exploration of the cutting-edge technology that will enable us to confront the realities of climate change.

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeincluding 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 before it was too late.

"An important frame of reference for everyone seeking to address the greatest threat to our children and future generations." --US Rep. Jim McGovern

In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity.

"An important contribution to an issue with enormous potential for benefiting humanity." Stephen Pinker

The inside story of the fight for and against genetic modification in food, from someone who's been on the front line of both sides of the argument.