Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth
Groundbreaking solutions to the climate crisis from scientists, engineers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs and activists, offering hope to all readers concerned about our planet's future. Offers practical actions that reflect technological and economic advances with an introduction by former United States senator Russ Feingold. Solving the Climate Crisis is a hopeful and critical resource that makes a convincing and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our environment. Illustrating the power of committed individuals and the necessity for collaborative government and private-sector climate action, the book focuses on three essential areas: The technological dimension: move to 100% clean renewable energy as fast as we possibly can through innovations like clean-steel, “green” cement, and carbon-reuse companies; The ecological dimension: enhance and protect natural ecosystems, forests, and agricultural lands to safely store greenhouse gases and restore soils, transforming how we grow, process, and consume food; The social dimension: update and create new laws, policies and economic measures to recenter human values and reduce environmental and social injustice. Based on more than 6 years of research, Berger traveled the nation and abroad to interview governors, mayors, ranchers, scientists, engineers, business leaders, energy experts, and financiers as well as carbon farmers, solar and wind innovators, forest protectors, non-profit leaders, and activists. With real world examples, an explanation of cutting-edge technologies in solar and wind, and political organizing tactics, Solving the Climate Crisis provides a practical road map for how we effectively combat climate change. Replacing the fossil-fuel system with a newly invigorated, modernized, clean-energy economy will produce tens of millions of new jobs and save trillions of dollars. Protecting the climate is thus potentially the greatest economic opportunity of our time.

Reviews
"THE most important book of 2023—and possibly 2024. If anything deserves to be trending, it’s this. Dr. John J. Berger’s Solving the Climate Crisis is not just a book—it’s a thought-provoking and deeply hopeful blueprint for our collective future…[Berger] lays out a path forward that is both pragmatic and proves that we have the knowledge and we have the solutions already at our fingertips…This book isn’t just for environmentalists. It’s for anyone who cares about the future of our planet…In a world where the climate crisis seems more urgent and overwhelming than ever, this book stands as a powerful testament to the transformative power of informed thinking and the potential for change.”
Payton Hillman
Publisher
Sustain Europe
"If you’ve been exposed to raging wildfires, higher sea levels, virulent tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves and widespread droughts, you may wish to dig in to @johnjberger ‘s engrossing new book “Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.” Widely praised, deeply researched, easy to read, and ready to use as a citizen on this planet to reverse the climate catastrophe through efficient renewable energy and energy savings.”
Ralph Nader
American Activist and Author
"A scientifically reliable overview of currently available climate solutions, Solving the Climate Crisis provides thought-provoking coverage of proven, cost-effective technologies and strategies that could be scaled up to hugely reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and protect the climate. ”
John Harte
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Division of Ecosystem Sciences
University of California, Berkeley