What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is to imagine life on the other side. For the past few years, our co-founder Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has been speaking with visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, producers and policy wonks who are guiding us through solutions and possibilities, who are helping us to imagine a transformed and replenished world. And she collected it all into a new book.
Available on September 17th. Pre-order your copy here.
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures is an irreverent and joyous collection of essays, interviews, data, poetry, and art that map an inspiring landscape of solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. You can find a sneak peak excerpt—the “A Note on Hope” chapter—in Ayana’s new Substack newsletter.
We’re sharing this news with you because the book features conversations with a bunch of incredible folks who help make our work possible, including UOL advisors Bryan C. Lee and Kate Orff on the future of coastal cities, and Paola Antonelli on the role of design, as well as Colette Pichon Battle (our partner for Ocean Justice Forum) on diasporas and home, Bren Smith (our collaborator on regenerative ocean farming) on working waterfronts and the blue economy, and a chapter on the Blue New Deal co-authored with UOL co-founder Jean Flemma. The gang’s all here!
The climate challenges we face call for collective wisdom, and if you’re keen to dive in on possible climate futures with these wise and delightful folks, you can pre-order a copy. (Publication date is September 17th).
You can also find us on tour! We’ll be at the book launch Climate Variety Show with Bren, Jean, and Paola at the Brooklyn Museum, at Climate Week NYC with Colette, at Powell’s bookstore with Jean in Portland, OR, and 25+ other events across the country.