What If We Stopped Pretending?: Jonathan Franzen

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesnt have to mean the world is ending.If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the worlds inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzens writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the worlds failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what