H Is for Hope

In twenty-six essays-one for each letter of the alphabet-the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Sixth Extinctiontakes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.

Climate change resists narrative-and yet some account of what's happening is needed. Millions of lives are at stake, and upward of a million species. And there are decisions to be made, even though it's unclear who, exactly, will make them.

InH Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change-from "A", for SvanteArrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to "Z", for the Colorado River Basin, groundzero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg's "blah blah blah" speech ("B"), learns to fly an all-electric plane ("E"), experiments with the effects of extremetemperatures on the human body ("T"), and struggles with the deepuncertainty of the future of climate change ("U").

Adapted from essays originally published inThe New Yorkerand beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook,H Is for Hopeis simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous-a unique examination of our changing world.