Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New Orleans.
"An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to
save what can be saved." --Barbara Kiser, Nature "Reading like a
Greek tragedy, Losing Earth shows how close we came to making the
right choices -- if it weren't for our darker angels." --Adam
Frank, NPR.org "Exceedingly well-written . . . a must-read handbook
for everyone concerned about our planet's future . . . Losing Earth
is eloquent, devastating, and crucial." --Booklist (starred review)
"A maddening book full of what-ifs and the haunting suspicion that
if treated as a political problem and not as a matter of life and
death, climate change will cook everyone's geese." --Kirkus Reviews
"This deeply researched, deeply felt book is an essential addition
to the canon of climate change literature. Others have documented
where we are, and speculated about where we might be headed, but
the story of how we got here is perhaps the most important one to
be told, because it is both a cautionary tale and an unfinished
one. Reading this book, I could not help but imagine my children
one day reading a future edition, which will include the story of
my generation's response to what we knew." --Jonathan Safran Foer,
author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close "How to explain the
mess we're in? Nathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was
squandered. Losing Earth is an important contribution to the record
of our heedless age."
--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "Combining the
dramatic immediacy of a police procedural with the urgency of
prophecy, Nathaniel Rich's provocative book chronicles the failure
of our scientific and political leaders to act to halt the climate
apocalypse when they appeared on the verge of doing so, and casts
the triumph of denial as the defining moral crisis for humankind."
--Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow
We Will be Killed With Our Families
"In this book, Nathaniel Rich demonstrates exquisitely how shallow
debate of a deep problem--the planetary scale and civilizational
consequences of climate change--exacerbates the problem. We are
still a long way from thinking about climate change in the
multi-century frame we need to deal with it realistically. Getting
there will be a new skill for humanity, if we get there." --Stewart
Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline "[Nathaniel] Rich has a
talent for translating a complicated issue into a gripping story.
And like any effective storyteller, he places compelling characters
in the foreground." -LitHub
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