With this third title in the NYT #1 best-selling Empower the Future series, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of climate change and climate justice.
Our planet is in crisis. The ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, wildfires are raging… and those most affected by global warming are marginalized communities across the globe.
But all is not lost – there’s still time for each and every one of us to make a difference.
Through the lens of intersectionality, author Dany Sigwalt lays out the framework for how we can come together to fight climate change, and how we can work to put people over profit. The planet is not protected if all its inhabitants are not; the people are not protected if the planet they inhabit is not.
This Book Will Save the Planet: A Climate-Justice Primer for Activists and Changemakers
What People Are Saying
“If a single book could hope to save the life support systems of Planet Earth while advancing equity and justice, this stunning volume by Sigwalt and Durand is the one. In compelling and unapologetic clarity, the author breaks down the root causes of climate chaos and asks us to imagine a future where all of us can thrive. Supported by elucidating graphics, the book clarifies complex concepts like emissions inequality, climate gentrification, and mutual aid in ways accessible to young people. Centering the needs of Indigenous, Black, disabled, poor, and queer folks, THIS BOOK WILL SAVE THE PLANET is a refreshing primer on the path forward to a livable and just global future.”— Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black
“I wished I had this book when I was a teenager! It would have saved me years of struggle to make sense of the deeply unjust, unequal world we live in. Dany Sigwalt explains with gentle wisdom what global climate catastrophe is really about, at its root - not a crisis of technology, but a crisis that inevitably arises from systems of domination, and that can't be truly addressed without dismantling these systems. Best of all, this book leaves the reader with hope that transforming these systems with our collective power, while not easy, is possible and within reach.”
— Basav Sen, director, Climate Policy Project at Institute for Policy Studies
"I can't imagine a more straightforward guide to this moment on earth. This book is 'radical' in the sense that it gets to the root of the problem, by taking power seriously. But most people reading it will recognize its solutions as eminently sensible, practical, and indeed joyful. It will liberate your thinking!"— Bill McKibben, founder, Third Act
“In this eye-catchingly illustrated book in the Empower the Future series, author Sigwalt boldly and compellingly shows that ‘climate change doesn’t sit apart from inequality. Climate change is the outcome of inequality.’ Throughout the book, she uses stark statistics and persuasive arguments to urge young people to fight for climate justice. After explaining how and why our climate is changing due to greenhouse gas emissions, Sigwalt defines what climate justice is and says that to reach it, ‘we need to understand the unjust systems that underpin most of our societies. And we need to work together to make new paths that include everyone.’ Short chapters address climate stories and climate tipping points. The book delves into ways to avert climate collapse as well as the effects of identity and privilege, capitalism and corporations, and housing and migration, and it offers calls to action in resisting fossil fuels and in building resiliency and community, both as individuals and collectively. Sigwalt’s own first-hand experience with a climate disaster that exposed social inequality adds another perspective. This resource is complemented by further reading suggestions, a glossary, and notes on the text. Illustrator Durand’s bright digital illustrations and the activities suggested at the end of each chapter will spur young readers to action. ”— Starred Review in ALA Booklist, Sharon Rawlins
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