First published 2017
Climate change has reached a crossroads. The dire warnings from An Inconvenient Truth's 2006 predictions about 2016 have passed, yet neither catastrophe nor resolution arrived. Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope reject both panic and denial as useless responses. They argue that massive doom scenarios paralyze global leaders into inaction. Instead, they propose breaking climate challenges into specific, solvable problems. Their approach focuses on immediate benefits: fewer childhood asthma attacks, reduced respiratory deaths, lower energy costs, stronger energy security, better transportation, and more local jobs. These gains strengthen both public health and economic growth while stabilizing the climate long term. With federal climate action increasingly uncertain, Bloomberg and Pope demonstrate how cities can drive meaningful change. They present compelling economic and health arguments that businesses and citizens can rally behind, showing that climate solutions create tangible improvements in daily life.
Genres: politics, environment, non-fiction, climate-change
Vibes: fast-paced, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: solutions-focused
272 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press