The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Part One / How Climate Works
	1.1: To solve this problem, we need to understand it
	1.2: The Deep History of Carbon Dioxide
	1.3: Our Evolutionary Impact
	1.4: Civilization and Extinction
	1.5: The science is as solid as it gets
	1.6: The Discovery of Climate Change
	1.7: Why Didn’t They Act?
	1.8: Tipping Points and Feedback Loops
	1.9: This is the biggest story in the world
Part Two / How Our Planet Is Changing
	2.1: The weather seems to be on steroids
	2.2: Heat
	2.3: Methane and Other Gases
	2.4: Air Pollution and Aerosols
	2.5: Clouds
	2.6: Arctic Warming and the Jet Stream
	2.7: Dangerous Weather
	2.8: The snowball has been set in motion
	2.9: Droughts and Floods
	2.10: Ice Sheets, Shelves and Glaciers
	2.11: Warming Oceans and Rising Seas
	2.12: Acidification and Marine Ecosystems
	2.13: Microplastics
	2.14: Fresh Water
	2.15: It is much closer to home than we think
	2.16: Wildfires
	2.17: The Amazon
	2.18: Boreal and Temperate Forests
	2.19: Terrestrial Biodiversity
	2.20: Insects
	2.21: Nature’s Calendar
	2.22: Soil
	2.23: Permafrost
	2.24: What Happens at 1.5, 2 and 4°C of Warming?
Part Three / How It Affects Us
	3.1: The world has a fever
	3.2: Health and Climate
	3.3: Heat and Illness
	3.4: Air Pollution
	3.5: Vector-borne Diseases
	3.6: Antibiotic Resistance
	3.7: Food and Nutrition
	3.8: We are not all in the same boat
	3.9: Life at 1.1°C
	3.10: Environmental Racism
	3.11: Climate Refugees
	3.12: Sea-level Rise and Small Islands
	3.13: Rain in the Sahel
	3.14: Winter in Sápmi
	3.15: Fighting for the Forest
	3.16: Enormous challenges are waiting
	3.17: Warming and Inequality
	3.18: Water Shortages
	3.19: Climate Conflicts
	3.20: The True Cost of Climate Change
Part Four / What We’ve Done About It
	4.1: How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed?
	4.2: The New Denialism
	4.3: The Truth about Government Climate Targets
	4.4: We are not moving in the right direction
	4.5: The Persistence of Fossil Fuels
	4.6: The Rise of Renewables
	Fossil-free Energy Sources
	4.7: How Can Forests Help Us?
	4.8: What about Geoengineering?
	4.9: Drawdown Technologies
	4.10: A whole new way of thinking
	4.11: Our Imprint on the Land
	4.12: The Calorie Question
	4.13: Designing New Food Systems
	4.14: Mapping Emissions in an Industrial World
	4.15: The Technical Hitch
	4.16: The Challenge of Transport
	4.17: Is the Future Electric?
	4.18: They keep saying one thing while doing another
	4.19: The Cost of Consumerism
	4.20: How (Not) to Buy
	4.21: Waste around the World
	4.22: The Myth of Recycling
	4.23: This is where we draw the line
	4.24: Emissions and Growth
	4.25: Equity
	4.26: Degrowth
	4.27: The Perception Gap
Part Five / What We Must Do Now
	5.1: The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves
	5.2: Individual Action, Social Transformation
	5.3: Towards 1.5°C Lifestyles
	5.4: Overcoming Climate Apathy
	5.5: Changing Our Diets
	5.6: Remembering the Ocean
	5.7: Rewilding
	5.8: We now have to do the seemingly impossible
	5.9: Practical Utopias
	5.10: People Power
	5.11: Changing the Media Narrative
	5.12: Resisting the New Denialism
	5.13: A Genuine Emergency Response
	5.14: Lessons from the Pandemic
	5.15: Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice
	5.16: A Just Transition
	5.17: What Does Equity Mean to You?
	5.18: Women and the Climate Crisis
	5.19: Decarbonization Requires Redistribution
	5.20: Climate Reparations
	5.21: Mending Our Relationship with the Earth
	5.22: Hope is something you have to earn
What Next?
	What needs to be done
	What we can do together as a society
	What can you do as an individual
	Some of us can do more than others
Index
Illustration Credits
A Note on the Cover
About the Author