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Part One /
How Climate Works
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
1.1 ‘To solve this problem, we need to understand it’
Part Two /
How our Planet is Changing
2.2 Heat
2.4 Air Pollution and Aerosols
2.3 Methane and Other Gases
2.5 Clouds
2.6 Arctic Warming and the Jet Stream
2.7 Dangerous Weather
2.8 The snowball has been set in motion
2.10 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
2.23 Permafrost
2.24 What Happens at 1.5, 2 and 4°C of Warming?
2.1 The weather seems to be on steroids
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
3.15 Fighting for the Forest
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
4.21 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
5.10 People Power
5.11 Changing the Media Narrative
5.12 Resisting the New Denialism
5.14 Lessons from the Pandemic
5.15 Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice
5.19 Decarbonization Requires Redistribution
5.20 Climate Reparations
5.21 Mending Our Relationship with the Earth
What Next?
5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible
Introduction /
Climate by Numbers
Endnotes
