Part one. How climate works. To solve this problem, we need to understand it / Greta Thunberg. The deep history of carbon dioxide / Peter Brannen --
Our evolutionary impact / Beth Shapiro --
Civilization and extinction / Elizabeth Kolbert --
The science is as solid as it gets / Greta Thunberg --
The discovery of climate change / Michael Oppenheimer --
Why didn't they act / Naomi Oreskes --
Tipping point and feedback loops / Johan Rockström --
This is the biggest story in the world / Greta Thunberg --
Part two. How our planet is changing. The weather seems to be on steroids / Greta Thunberg --
Heat / Katharine Hayhoe --
Methane and other gasses / Zeke Hausfather --
Air pollution and aerosols / Bj�rn H. Samset --
Arctic warming and the jet stream / Jennifer Francis --
Dangerous weather / Friederike Otto --
The snowball has been set in motion / Greta Thunberg --
Droughts and floods / Kate Marvel --
Ice sheets, shelves and glaciers / Ricarda Winkelmann --
Warming oceans and rising seas / Stefan Rahmstorf --
Acidification and marine ecosystems / Hans-Otto Pörtner --
Microplastics / Karvin Kvale --
Fresh water / Peter H. Gleick --
It is much closer to home than we think / Greta Thunberg --
Wildfires / Joëlle Gergis --
The Amazon / Carols A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, and Nathália Nascimento --
Boreal and temperate forests / Beverly E. Law --
Terrestrial biodiversity / Adriana De Palma and Andy Purvis --
Insects / Dave Goulson --
Nature's calendar / Keith W. Larson --
Soil / Jennifer L. Soong --
Permafrost / Örjan Gustafsson --
What happens at 1.5, 2 and 4� of warming? / Tamsin Edwards --
Part three. How it affects us. The world has a fever / Greta Thunberg Health and climate / Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus --
Heat and illness / Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera --
Air pollution / Drew Shindell --
Vector-borne diseases / Felipe J. Colón-González --
Antibiotic resistance / John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah McGough, and Mauricio Santillana --
Food and nutrition / Samuel S. Myers --
We are not all in the same boat / Greta Thunberg --
Life at 1.1�C / Saleemul Huq --
Environmental racism / Jacqueline Patterson --
Climate refugees / Abraham Lustgarten --
Sea-level rise and small islands / Michael Taylor --
Rain in the Sahel / Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim --
Winter in Sápmi / Elin Anna Labba --
Fighting for the forest / Sônia Guajajara --
Enormous challenges are waiting / Greta Thunberg --
Warming and inequality / Solomon Hsiang --
Water shortages / Taikan Oki --
Climate conflicts / Marshall Burke --
The true cost of climate change / Eugene Linden --
Part four. What we've done about it. How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed? / Greta Thunberg --
The new denialism / Kevin Anderson --
The truth about government climate targets / Alexandra Urisman Otto --
We are not moving in the right direction / Greta Thunberg --
The persistence of fossil fuels / Bill McKibben --
The rise of renewables / Glen Peters --
How can forests help us? / Karl-Heinz Erb and Simone Gingrich ; What about geoengineering / Niclas Hällström, Jennie C. Stephens, and Isak Stoddard --
Drawdown technologies / Rob Jackson --
A whole new way of thinking / Greta Thunberg --
Our imprint of the land / Alexander Popp --
The calorie question / Michael Clark --
Designing new food systems / Sonja Vermeulen --
Mapping emissions in an industrial world / John Barrett and Alice Garvey --
The technical hitch / Ketan Joshi --
The challenge of transport / Alice Larkin --
Is the future electric? / Jillian Anable and Christian Brand --
They keep saying one thing while doing another / Greta Thunberg --
The cost of consumerism / Annie Lowrey --
How (not) to buy / Mike Berners-Lee --
Waste around the world / Slip Kaza --
The myth of recycling / Nina Schrank --
This is where we draw the line / Greta Thunberg --
Emissions and growth / Nicholas Stern --
Equity / Sunita Narain --
Degrowth / Jason Hickel --
The perception gap / Amitav Ghosh --
Part five. What we must do now. The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves / Greta Thunberg --
Individual action, social transformation / Stuart Capstick and Lorraine Whitmarsh ; Towards 1.5�C lifestyles / Kate Raworth --
Overcoming climate apathy / Per Espen Stoknes --
Changing our diets / Gidon Eshel --
Remembering the ocean / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson --
Rewilding / George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley --
We now have to do the seemingly impossible / Greta Thunberg --
Practical utopias / Margaret Atwood --
People power / Erica Chenoweth --
Changing the media narrative / George Monbiot --
Resisting the new denialism / Michael E. Mann ; A genuine emergency response / Seth Klein --
Lesson from the pandemic / David Wallace-Wells --
Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice / Greta Thunberg --
A just transition / Naomi Klein --
What does equity mean to you / Nicki Becker, Disha A. Ravi, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Laura Verónica Muñoz, Ina Maria Shikongo, Ayisha Siddiqa, and Mitzi Jonelle Tan --
Women in the climate crisis / Wanjira Mathai --
Decarbonization requires redistribution / Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty --
Climate reparations / Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò --
Mending our relationship with the Earth / Robin Wall Kimmerer --
Hope is something you have to earn / Greta Thunberg --
A note on the cover / Ed Hawkins.
How our planet is changing
