H Is for Hope

In twenty-six essaysone for each letter of the alphabetthe Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate changefrom ';A,' for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to ';Z,' for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg's ';blah blah blah' speech (';B'), learns to fly an all-electric plane (';E'), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (';T'), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (';U'). Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorousa unique examination of our changing world.