What If We Get It Right: Visions of Climate Futures

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Our climate future is not yet written. What will it look like if we get it right NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with enthusiastic clarity."-Roxane Gay Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future 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 financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take-from every one 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 to 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, Johnson invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question together- What if we get it right On possibility and transformation with- Paola Antonelli . Xiye Bastida . Jade Begay . Wendell Berry. Regine Clement . Steve Connell . Erica Deeman . Abigail Dillen . Brian Donahue . Jean Flemma . Kelly Sims Gallagher . Rhiana Gunn-Wright . Olalekan Jeyifous . Corley Kenna . Bryan C. Lee Jr. . Franklin Leonard . Adam McKay . Bill McKibben . Kate Marvel. Samantha Montano . Kate Orff . Leah Penniman . Marge Piercy . Colette Pichon Battle . Kendra Pierre-Louis . Judith D. Schwartz . Jigar Shah . Ayisha Siddiqa . Bren Smith . Oana Stnescu . Mustafa Suleyman . Jacqueline Woodson

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With athoughtfully curatedseries of essays, poetry, and conversations, Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic peoplewho are willing toimaginewhat seems impossible, andarticulate those visions withenthusiastic clarity. The problem of climate change is a significant one, but What If We Get It Right reminds us that with passion and ingenuity, there is so much we can accomplish.Roxane Gay

This book had me at its title. Through a collection ofthoughtfulessays and interviews, Johnsonexploresthepossibilityof getting it right with avisionarygroup of environmental leaders, activists and other big thinkers working on the front lines. Johnson, who has become aprominent voiceon climate solutions, reminds us that there is alsojoyin working toward a future where we can all thrive.Los Angeles Times

This is the book weve been waiting forabrilliantmix of creativity and wisdom that feels like were eavesdropping on intimate conversations with the worlds most brilliant change-makers. In What If We Get It Right, Johnson weavestogether art, poetry, and expert interviews into a deeply humanexplorationof theinterconnectedchallenges we face. The result is avisionof a future filled withjoyandpossibility, where fixing one problem helps us solve many more.Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist, author, and UN Champion of the Earth

Anoptimisticbent and eagerembraceof solutions . . . these conversations are as much about getting it right as they are about what we are currently getting wrong. Johnson is atop-notchinterviewer, and her guests areinsightfuland candid.Scientific American

Anentirely credible(andentirely enchanting) voice . . . Ayana Johnson is no Pollyanna. Shes a hard-nosed andextremely competentscientist who has not shied for a minute from facing thehard truths.Bill McKibben

Rigorous,elucidating, and hopeful in the mostcatalyticsense, this volume will stiffen your political will and open your mind and heart. It could arrive atno better moment.Rebecca Traister, bestselling author and writer for New York magazine

I believe that this is a book thatthe young among us have been waiting for. It is certainly theresetthat we as societies and as elders owe to coming generations of humanityand to ourmagnificentnatural world.Krista Tippett, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanities Medalist, and a New York Times bestselling author

The climate crisis isterrifying, but alsoexhilaratingexhilarating because spectacularnew ideas, approaches, and values are arising to address the terrifying stuff . . . Ayana Elizabeth Johnson'sfantasticnew anthology lets you listen to dozens of them.Rebecca Solnit, author, feminist, environmentalist

Critically, What If We Get It Right reminds us of the most important solution of all:protectingandrestoringnature, the magic of photosynthesis and water cycle. If you need a kick in the pants to roll up your sleeves on climate solutions, this book is for you.Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia

If you areenamoredwith possibility, as I am, let the perspectives gathered in these pagesfill you upandpropelyou on. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has prepared agenuine feastfor us. Savor every what if for our shared future.Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, co-editor of All We Can Save and lead writer of Drawdown

Author Bio

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She co--founded and leads Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Dr. Johnson co-edited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save, co-created and co-hosted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet, and co-authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. She serves on the board of directors for Patagonia and GreenWave, and on the advisory board of Environmental Voter Project. Above all- She is in love with climate solutions.