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HOPE DIES LAST
Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future.
In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet's existential crisis. His new book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core resolve of our species against the most precarious odds we have ever faced.
To write this book, Weisman traveled the globe, witnessing climate upheaval and other devastations, and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to revived wetlands in Iraq, from the Netherlands and Bangladesh to the Korean DMZ and to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has encountered the best of humanity battling heat, hunger, rising tides, and imperiled nature. He profiles the innovations of big thinkersengineers, scientists, conservationists, economists, architects, and artistsas they conjure wildly creative, imaginative responses to an uncertain, ominous future. At this unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet may lead to our own undoing and we could be among the species marching toward extinction, they refuse to accept defeat.
Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected?
Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including the New York Times and international bestseller, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), which has been translated into 34 languages and was nominated for numerous awards. Weisman's articles have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and various other publications, and he has worked on all seven continents and reported from 58 countries. A co-founder of Homelands Productions, a nonprofit journalism collective, Weisman has received many radio awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Citation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, the sculptor Beckie Kravetz.
To write this book, Weisman traveled the globe, witnessing climate upheaval and other devastations, and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to revived wetlands in Iraq, from the Netherlands and Bangladesh to the Korean DMZ and to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has encountered the best of humanity battling heat, hunger, rising tides, and imperiled nature. He profiles the innovations of big thinkersengineers, scientists, conservationists, economists, architects, and artistsas they conjure wildly creative, imaginative responses to an uncertain, ominous future. At this unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet may lead to our own undoing and we could be among the species marching toward extinction, they refuse to accept defeat.
Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected?
Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including the New York Times and international bestseller, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), which has been translated into 34 languages and was nominated for numerous awards. Weisman's articles have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and various other publications, and he has worked on all seven continents and reported from 58 countries. A co-founder of Homelands Productions, a nonprofit journalism collective, Weisman has received many radio awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Citation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, the sculptor Beckie Kravetz.
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Book Published 2025-04-22 by Dutton Books |