"First published by Allen Lane, 2022"
Title page verso.

Includes index.

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 / Bjørn H. Samset ; Clouds / Paulo Ceppi ; 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
What next?
Index
Illustration credits
A note on the cover / Ed Hawkins