List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Daniel P. Schrag
Preface
Mary Ann Meyers
1. Introduction: Audacity
Jaeha Woo
2. Acceleration: Learning from the biggest mistake in my career as a climate scientist
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
3. Hope: Seeking climate responses that foster both personal and collective well-being
Katharine J. Mach
4. Risk: How the property insurance market can better convey the impacts of climate change
Kerry Emanuel
5. Anthropocene: How humanity created the current global environmental crisis, and how we can overcome it
Mark A. Maslin
6. Societal Transformations: Why climate action will take different forms in different cultures
Richard Potts
7. Adaptation: How to protect the most vulnerable from future climate emergencies
Michael Oppenheimer
8. Migration: The law in response to the injustice of climate displacement
Ama Ruth Francis
9. Resilience: Why combating societal inequality is central to climate action
Ilona M. Otto
10. Opportunities: How the green growth mindset can achieve big climate wins
Gernot Wagner
11. Deep Transformation: Repairing relations, remaking our world
Willis Jenkins
12. Conclusion: Action
Philip Clayton
Index
Biography
Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor Emeritus at Claremont School of Theology, USA, and Founding President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. His more than two dozen written and edited books explore the intersections between science, philosophy, religion, and ethics. His science-based research and talks have focused on theoretical biology, the environmental sciences, and ecology.
Jaeha Woo is an assistant professor of philosophy of religion and general education at Evangelia University, USA. A specialist in the moral psychology of Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard, his work reflects on how people can sustain the motivation to persist in addressing global challenges such as climate change.
‘What an important volume! Some of the finest minds and most venerable campaigners of the climate world, together in one place making the case for the world we could still build. It will give every reader much to work with, as they try to make a difference for this besieged Earth!’
— Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College, USA
‘What sets this book apart is its capacious yet cohesive vision of what must be done to meet the climate imperative. Structured as a linked series of compelling essays by leading scholars, it offers a rare and ultimately uplifting journey through the many dimensions of climate action. The narrative moves gracefully from personal reflection to larger human stories of societal risk, adaptation, and transformation, resolving in a clear-eyed vision of the shared global good that awaits as we rise to this generational challenge.’
— Peter de Menocal, marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
‘This refreshingly readable collection not only explains the physical basis of the climate crisis, but also tackles the profound societal challenges it brings. New approaches are essential if we are to thrive on this planet, and this book details what they might look like. What I love is that the narrative is woven in a way that leaves the reader with hope and determination.’
— Helen Amanda Fricker, glaciologist, Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA
