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Hope Dies Last

Visionary People Across the World

Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future different from what we had expected? Where do we find hope?

Environmental journalist Alan Weisman is known for the bestseller The World Without Us, a thought experiment that brought into sharp relief the impact that we are having on the natural world. He returns with Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future, a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet’s existential crisis.  

Profoundly human and moving, this rejoinder to climate anxiety asks: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected? It shows how people with bold concepts can envision and create a new relationship with the Earth. A literary evocation of our current predicament, Hope Dies Last is an uplifting portrait of the core resolve of our species, profiling those courageously responding to the most precarious odds we have ever faced. He is joined in conversation by author Amy Wilentz.

Hope Dies Last is a book of heroism, courage, and selfless love.  Every story is a way forward.  This is one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, full of innovation. Alan Weisman has written the exact book we need to fight for our place on Earth. —Louise Erdrich, author of The Mighty Red and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Night Watchman. 

In Hope Dies Last, Alan Weisman takes us on a global journey to witness both humanity’s impact on our planet and our extraordinary resilience in the face of environmental crisis. Through vivid portraits of flooding islands, revived wetlands, and imperiled coastlines, he introduces us to the engineers, scientists, and visionaries working to imagine creative solutions for an uncertain future. Weisman masterfully captures the human spirit as we confront perhaps our greatest challenge: how to adapt to and persist in a world fundamentally altered by climate change. This profound narrative offers not just a clear-eyed look at our predicament, but a testament to the remarkable human capacity for hope even in extraordinarily challenging times. —Neil Shubin, author of the national bestseller Your Inner Fish and Ends of the Earth. 
 

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Photo of Amy Wilentz: Paula Goldman
 

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