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Its thirty years from now. Were making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who cant let go?

For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isnt controversial. Its just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their alternative news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that climate change is just a giant scam.

And theyre your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And theyre not going anywhere. And theyre armed to the teeth.

The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, theyre often the elders that we love?

Author: Cory Doctorow
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781250865939
Language: English