HOPE DIES LAST: VISIONARY PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD, FIGHTING TO FIND US A FUTURE

"To write this book, Weisman [traveled] the globe witnessing the devastation of climate change and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to wetlands renewal in Iraq, and from the Netherlands to the Korean DMZ to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has witnessed personally the best of humanity battling the heat, the hunger, and the rising tides. He profiles the work of big thinkers--engineers, scientists, economists, and psychiatrists--as they devise innovative and wildly creative responses to an uncertain and frightening future"