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Race for Tomorrow

Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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Race for Tomorrow

By: Simon Mundy
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As featured on CNN’s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times’ best books of 2021

In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world – shattering communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of cutting-edge innovation.

Telling unforgettable human stories, meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the forces that will define our future.

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‘Urgent reading … A truly global journey’ SOPHY ROBERTS

‘Vivid and informed’ ADAM NICOLSON

‘I took a great sense of hope’ RICHARD POWERS

‘Reads like a thriller’ MARK LYNAS

‘An inspiring piece of work’ MICHAEL E. MANN

‘Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field’ ANAND MAHINDRA

‘Gripping … A must-read for every concerned global citizen’ NANDAN NILEKANI

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Critic reviews

‘Contains a lot of really, really interesting hard science and market-based solutions, [and] some extraordinary examples of technology … Very useful indeed’
Andrew Marr
It’s a brilliant book! An optimistic, unpatronising account of what humankind CAN do to address climate change’
Rob Rinder, Talk Radio
‘He takes it down from this 30,000-foot view to people on the ground … I took a great sense of hope’
Richard Powers, author of The Overstory
‘An inspiring piece of work that deserves a broad audience … Read this book both to understand the urgency of climate action, and to recognise, too, the agency we still have’
Michael E. Mann, author of The New Climate War
‘[Puts] a human face on the most important story of our times. This book is eloquent and humane – a vital work of storytelling’
Henry Mance, author of How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
‘Simon Mundy’s vivid and informed despatches from the front line of climate change reveal not only the catastrophes imposed by global warming (which are hidden from most of us) but the best and brightest of responses to them … Don’t wait. Read it now before the race is lost’
Adam Nicolson, author of The Sea is Not Made of Water
‘Mundy’s book reads like a thriller’
Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees and Our Final Warning
‘Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field. Packed with vivid human stories, from the most desperately challenged communities to the highest levels of global business and politics, it’s an essential guide to how the climate crisis is transforming the modern world’
Anand Mahindra
‘A gripping story of individuals, communities and societies who are grappling with the myriad challenges of climate change. A must read for every concerned global citizen’
Nandan Nilekani
‘A pacy, riveting global tour of our fracturing planet; completely fascinating’
Ben Rawlence
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Most relevant
A must-read collection of intensely human climate-change stories. Through 22 extraordinary vignettes, Simon Munday of the FT sensitively weaves together every possible range of human achievement and despair against the backdrop of our accelerating environmental crisis.

Genuinely global in reach and firmly grounded in Science, Simon visits 26 countries across the world, from South Pacific islanders to Silicon valley’s entrepreneurs, from Greenland’s melting glaciers to the rising waters of Lagos, from the cobalt mines of the Congo to the Pleistocene resurgence of Northeast Siberia.

But this is no self-indulgent travelogue. Simon seeks to engage with a cross section of the people most intimately involved in all aspects of climate change. He sensitively shares the personal tragedies of innocent victims of environmental change; but he also engages with entrepreneurs at the forefront of sustainable business innovation and yes, sometimes exploitation.

As the leader of environmental charity, OceanGeneration.org, what I appreciate most about this remarkable book is that Simon at no time judges, hectors or patronises through his opinion. He recognises a deeply complex problem for what it is and seeks to stimulate in the reader sufficient curiosity and empathy to find out more.

Ultimately this is a human tale and one as old as time. A tale of hope and inspiration but also one of greed and exploitation. As the human race adapts to its new circumstances as it no doubt somehow will, we all do have another chance at being just a bit kinder and considerate tomorrow, than we have been today.

Superb collection of human climate change stories

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Love this book! Simon took me on an adventure around the world. He is engaging, and has broken down a complex topic into something that is easy to follow, and each story drew me in more and more.
I strongly recommend this book.
Thank you Simon

A fantastic listen!

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