"Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster"--. Provided by publisher.

"First published ... Allen Lane ... 2022"--Title page verso. Includes index.

Part one. How climate works. 1.1 To solve this problem, we need to understand it / Greta Thunberg. -- 1.2: The deep history of carbon dioxide / Peter Brannen -- 1.3: Our evolutionary impact / Beth Shapiro -- 1.4 Civilization and extinction / Elizabeth Kolbert -- 1.5 The science is as solid as it gets / Greta Thunberg. -- 1.6 The discovery of climate change / Michael Oppenheimer -- 1.7 Why didn't they act / Naomi Oreskes -- 1.8 Tipping point and feedback loops / Johan Rockström -- 1.9 This is the biggest story in the world / Greta Thunberg. -- Part two. How our planet is changing. -- 2.1 The weather seems to be on steroids / Greta Thunberg. -- 2.2 Heat / Katharine Hayhoe -- 2.3 Methane and other gasses / Zeke Hausfather -- 2.4 Air pollution and aerosols / Bjørn H. Samset -- 2.5 Clouds / Paulo Ceppi -- 2.6 Arctic warming and the jet stream / Jennifer Francis -- 2.7 Dangerous weather / Friederike Otto -- 2.8 The snowball has been set in motion / Greta Thunberg. -- 2.9 Droughts and floods / Kate Marvel ; -- 2.10 Ice sheets, shelves and glaciers / Ricarda Winkelmann -- 2.11 Warming oceans and rising seas / Stefan Rahmstorf ; -- 2.12 Acidification and marine ecosystems / Hans-Otto Pörtner -- 2.13 Microplastics / Karvin Kvale -- 2.14 Fresh water / Peter H. Gleick -- 2.15 It is much closer to home than we think / Greta Thunberg. -- 2.16 Wildfires / Joëlle Gergis -- 2.17 The Amazon / Carols A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, and Nathália Nascimento -- 2.18 Boreal and temperate forests / Beverly E. Law -- 2.19 Terrestrial biodiversity / Adriana De Palma and Andy Purvis -- 2.20 Insects / Dave Goulson -- 2.21 Nature's calendar / Keith W. Larson --- 2.22 Soil / Jennifer L. Soong --- 2.23 Permafrost / Örjan Gustafsson -- 2.24 What happens at 1.5, 2 and 4° of warming? / Tamsin Edwards -- Part three. How it affects us. --- 3.1 The world has a fever / Greta Thunberg. -- 3.2 Health and climate / Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus -- 3.3 Heat and illness / Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera -- 3.4 Air pollution / Drew Shindell -- 3.5 Vector-borne diseases / Felipe J. Colón-González -- 3. 6 Antibiotic resistance / John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah McGough, and Mauricio Santillana -- 3.7 Food and nutrition / Samuel S. Myers -- 3.8 We are not all in the same boat / Greta Thunberg. -- 3.9 Life at 1.1°C / Saleemul Huq -- 3.9 Environmental racism / Jacqueline Patterson -- 3.11 Climate refugees / Abraham Lustgarten -- 3.12 Sea-level rise and small islands / Michael Taylor -- 3.13 Rain in the Sahel / Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim -- 3.14 Winter in Sápmi / Elin Anna Labba -- 3.15 Fighting for the forest / Sônia Guajajara -- 3.16 Enormous challenges are waiting / Greta Thunberg. -- 3.17 Warming and inequality / Solomon Hsiang -- 3.18 Water shortages / Taikan Oki -- 3.19 Climate conflicts / Marshall Burke -- 3.20 The true cost of climate change / Eugene Linden -- Part four. What we've done about it. -- 4.1 How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed? / Greta Thunberg. 4.2 The new denialism / Kevin Anderson -- 4.3 The truth about government climate targets / Alexandra Urisman Otto -- 4.4 We are not moving in the right direction / Greta Thunberg. -- 4.5 The persistence of fossil fuels / Bill McKibben -- 4.6 The rise of renewables / Glen Peters -- 4.7 How can forests help us? / Karl-Heinz Erb and Simone Gingrich -- 4.8 What about geoengineering / Niclas Hällström, Jennie C. Stephens, and Isak Stoddard -- 4.9 Drawdown technologies / Rob Jackson -- 4.10 A whole new way of thinking / Greta Thunberg. Our imprint of the land / Alexander Popp -- 4.12 The calorie question / Michael Clark -- 4.13 Designing new food systems / Sonja Vermeulen -- 4.14 Mapping emissions in an industrial world / John Barrett and Alice Garvey -- 4.15 The technical hitch / Ketan Joshi -- 4.16 The challenge of transport / Alice Larkin -- 4.17 Is the future electric? / Jillian Anable and Christian Brand -- 4.18 They keep saying one thing while doing another / Greta Thunberg. -- 4.19 The cost of consumerism / Annie Lowrey -- 4.20 How (not) to buy / Mike Berners-Lee -- 4.21 Waste around the world / Slip Kaza -- 4.22 The myth of recycling / Nina Schrank -- 4.23 This is where we draw the line / Greta Thunberg.-- 4.24 Emissions and growth / Nicholas Stern -- 4.25 Equity / Sunita Narain -- 4.26 Degrowth / Jason Hickel -- 4.27 The perception gap / Amitav Ghosh -- Part five. What we must do now. -- 5.1 The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves / Greta Thunberg. -- 5.2 Individual action, social transformation / Stuart Capstick and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- 5.3 Towards 1.5°C lifestyles / Kate Raworth -- 5.4 Overcoming climate apathy / Per Espen Stoknes -- 5.5 Changing our diets / Gidon Eshel -- 5.6 Remembering the ocean / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ;-- 5.7 Rewilding / George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley -- 5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible / Greta Thunberg. -- 5.9 Practical utopias / Margaret Atwood -- 5.10 People power / Erica Chenoweth -- 5.11 Changing the media narrative / George Monbiot -- 5.12 Resisting the new denialism / Michael E. Mann -- 5.13 A genuine emergency response / Seth Klein -- 5.14 Lesson from the pandemic / David Wallace-Wells -- 5.15 Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice / Greta Thunberg. -- 5.16 A just transition / Naomi Klein -- 5.17 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 ; -- 5.18 Women in the climate crisis / Wanjira Mathai -- 5.19 Decarbonization requires redistribution / Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty -- 5.20 Climate reparations / Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò -- 5.21 Mending our relationship with the Earth / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- 5.22 Hope is something you have to earn / Greta Thunberg -- What next? -- Index -- Illustration credits -- A note on the cover / Ed Hawkins.