HUMANITY'S MOMENT

USA: Island Press;

“This book by a leading scientist is powerful, urgent, passionate, and clear, an explanation of the science of climate change and the kind of changes with which we need to meet it, changes in our energy policy, politics, and very imagining of the natural world and humanity's place in it. With its stubborn and well-grounded hopefulness, Humanity's Moment is a tool for engagement, whether you're new to the issue or could use some bolstering in your commitment.” —Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell's Roses and Hope in the Dark “Scientists aren't cyborgs—studying the climate crisis comes with a deep emotional burden. Joëlle Gergis has shouldered that burden and as a result has some useful ideas to share with the rest of us as we try to cope with the reality of what we've already done. It's a key part of trying to limit the damage—physical and spiritual—going forward.” —Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature

"In Humanity's Moment, Joe¨lle Gergis, a leading climate scientist and gifted author, manages to unpack the science behind the climate crisis in a way that is authoritative, gripping, and very personal. Read her engaging, first-hand account of the latest UN climate report to have both hope and inspiration as we tackle the greatest challenge we have faced as a species." —Professor Michael E. Mann "An important update on our climate problem." —Professor Tim Flannery "I am in awe of Joe¨lle's courage and clarity. This book is a gift to the world." —Jess Hill "Lucid, heartfelt, devastatingly clear-eyed but also inspiring in its passionate plea for change, Humanity's Moment is necessary reading." —James Bradley "A compelling account from deep inside the recent IPCC climate science assessment. The pages are stained with the author's tears, hopes, heart and soul." —Professor David Karoly "I've been waiting for an IPCC scientist to write this book. Where does someone charged with delivering the globe the stark existential truths find their hope; how do they navigate a path forward? How wonderful that Joe¨lle, a nature lover with a poet's sensibility, has been the one to do it." —Sarah Wilson

"[Gergis] lays out our planetary situation in stark and simple terms, in sentences and statistics that demand underlining, even if they seem too terrible to bear. This all makes for raw and urgent reading, but, in the vein of Julia Baird's Phosphorescence, the book also offers hope: its final section conjures the ‘social tipping point' needed to compel political action, reminding us of the roles we can each play."