I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor - Andrew Boyd

\n \nAn existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers\n \nWith global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5 C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the impossible news of our climate doom.\n \nHe searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers -- from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer -- asking them: Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?\n \nWith gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers readers through their climate angst as he walks his own. Boyd's journey takes him from storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and hopelessness workshops. Along the way, he maps out our existential options, and tackles some familiar dilemmas: Should I bring kids into such a world? Can I lose hope when others can't afford to? and Why the fuck am I recycling?\n \nHe finds answers that will surprise, inspire, and maybe even make you laugh. Drawing on wisdom traditions Eastern, Western, and Indigenous, Boyd crafts an insightful and irreverent guide for achieving a better catastrophe.\n \nThis is vital reading for everyone navigating climate anxiety and grief as our world hurtles towards an unthinkable crisis.\n