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 thinkers—engineers scientists conservationists economists architects
and artists—as 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. A rejoinder to climate anxiety by one of the most important voices
on humanity’s relationship with the Earth 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?
