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In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change – from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to Z, for Net Zero. Along the way she looks at Greta Thurnburg's 'blah blah blah' speech, flies an all-electric plane, experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body, and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future.
Complemented by Wesley Allsbrook's gorgeous, colour illustrations, H Is for Hope offers an inspiring, worrying and, above all, hopeful vision for how we can still save our planet.
Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she's a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
"[...] I realise I began this book looking for easy wins. I wanted someone to tell me that everything was going to be OK. I finished it understanding that things are as bad as I knew, but also feeling chided for choosing to look away. In a sense I feel reinvigorated."
– Adam Weymouth, Resurgence & Ecologist 345, July/August 2024
"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert."
– Rolling Stone
"Illustrated throughout with vivid pen-and-ink-style drawings [...] An intelligently provocative and well-presented look at the world's most pressing issue.|
– Kirkus
