Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Wen Stephenson…raises the emotional stakes while keeping a clear head. This was the first book on climate change that not only frightened me—plenty have done that—but also broke my heart…Hertsgaard, to his credit, refuses to sugarcoat…And yet [he]also knows that we cannot allow fear or despair, or even anger, to be our only response. To face this challenge, we need reasons to believe the task is doable. Hertsgaard makes a valiant effort to provide them. He presents a strong case that there is still time to make an enormous difference.
—The New York Times




Publishers WeeklyA new father, Hertsgaard (Earth Odyssey) was growing increasingly anxious and despondent about climate change and the world his child would inherit. His new book is his investigation into the techniques that could allow his daughter and her generation "to survive the challenges ahead.