What If We Stopped Pretending?

The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. ‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’ The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what? Franzen's literary collections are a testament to his status as a bestselling author. His essays, a blend of science, journalism, and arts, delve into the political and public discourse on environmental policy and nature conservation, urging us to rethink our approach to climate change. For fans of Barbara Kingsolver (Prodigal Summer), Zadie Smith (Intimations), Joan Didion (Let Me Tell You What I Mean), David Foster Wallace (Consider The Lobster), and Michael E. Mann (The New Climate War).