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A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who ll inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation. But the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon thereafter, learned that climate change had already arrived a century earlier than forecast with impacts bound to worsen for decades to come. Hertsgaard's daughter Chiara, now five yea rs old, is part of what he has dubbed Generation Hot --the two billion young people worldwide who will spend the rest of their lives coping with mounting climate disruption. HOT is a father's cry against climate change, but most of the book focuses on s olutions, offering a deeply reported blueprint for how all of us as parents, communities, companies and countries can navigate this unavoidable new era. Combining reporting from across the nation and around the world with personal reflections on his daugh ter s future, Hertsgaard provides pictures of what is expected over the next fifty years: Chicago s climate transformed to resemble Houston s; dwindling water supplies and crop yields at home and abroad; the redesign of New York and other cities against mega-storms and sea-level rise. Above all, he shows who is taking wise, creative precautions. For in the end, HOT is a book about how we ll survive.

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@lt;DIV@gt; Passionate and somber...[HOT's] urgent message is one that citizens and governments cannot afford to ignore. --@lt;I@gt;Boston Globe@lt;/I@gt;@lt;/P@gt; Informative and vividly reported book...passionate. --@lt;I@gt;San Francisco Chronicle@lt;BR@gt;@lt;/I@gt;@lt;BR@gt; [A] readable, passionate book . . . persuasively argues that human survival depends on bottom-up, citizen-driven government action. --@lt;I@gt;Publishers Weekly@lt;/I@gt;@lt;BR@gt;@lt;BR@gt; Climate change is well underway, writes Hertsgaard, and we must begin to adapt to it even as we work to stop it....The author's stated goal is to make readers feel hopeful so that they will act, but he is candid about his own lapses into despair. . . . Hopefully, this book will prompt readers to action. Starkly clear and of utmost importance. --@lt;I@gt;Kirkus Reviews @lt;/I@gt;(starred)@lt;/P@gt; In @lt;I@gt;Hot@lt;/I@gt;, one of America's finest journalists confronts one of the world's most urgent problems. Herts

[A] readable, passionate book . . . persuasively argues that human survival depends on bottom-up, citizen-driven government action. &#8212; Publishers Weekly <br> Climate change is well underway, writes Hertsgaard, and we must begin to adapt to it even as we work to stop it....The author&#8217;s stated goal is to make readers feel hopeful so that they will act, but he is candid about his own lapses into despair.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. Hopefully, this book will prompt readers to action. Starkly clear and of utmost importance. &#8212; Kirkus Reviews (starred) <br> In Hot, one of America's finest journalists confronts one of the world's most urgent problems. Hertsgaard cuts through the denial and disinformation about climate change, offering a clear, tough-minded view of our predicament. More important, he shows that the worst harms of global warming are not inevitable and outlines the steps that can help to avert disaster. Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate thr

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MARK HERTSGAARD, called one of America s finest reporters by Barbara Ehrenreich, is the author of five previous books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including On Bended Knee and Earth Odyssey.

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