Notes from
The Climate Book
by Greta Thunberg
Penguin Press, 2023; audiobook: Penguin Random House Audio, 2023.
What next?
Here's a bullet point summary of final section of the book.
What needs to be done
- Start treating the crisis like a crisis
- Face the emergency
- Admit failure
- Include all the figures
- Connect the dots
- Choose justice and historic reparations
What we can do together as a society
- Educate ourselves
- Leave no one behind
- Establish binding commitments
- Rewild nature
- Restore nature
- Plant trees
- Maximize all possible carbon sinks
- Abandon phrases like ‘carbon offsetting’ and ‘climate compensation’
- Divest from fossil fuels
- End all fossil fuel subsidies
- Make local public transport free of charge
- Rethink transport
- Make ecocide a crime
- Leapfrog to renewable energy
- Leapfrog social norms
- Avoid false solutions
- Invest in wind and solar power
- Avoid both-sideism
- Ban high-carbon advertising
- Invest in science, research and technology
- Heed the principles of safety
- Sue carbon-pollutin governments and companies
- Create new laws
What you can do as an individual
- Educate yourself
- Become an activist
- Defend democracy
- Become politically active
- Talk about it
- Amplify the voices on the front lines
- Avoid culture wars
- Shift towards a plant-based diet
- Be skeptical
- Stay on the ground
- Buy less and use less
Contributors
In addition to Greta, the following leading scientists and experts, and activists, authors and storytellers participated in The Climate Book.
Peter Brannen, Beth Shapiro, Elizabeth Kolbert, Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes, Johan Rockström, Katharine Hayhoe, Zeke Hausfather, Bjørn H. Samset, Paulo Ceppi, Jennifer Francis, Friederike Otto, Kate Marvel, Ricarda Winkelmann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Karin Kvale, Peter H. Gleick, Joëlle Gergis, Carlos A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, Nathália Nascimento, Beverly E. Law, Adriana De Palma, Andy Purvis, Dave Goulson, Keith W. Larson, Jennifer L. Soong, Örjan Gustafsson, Tamsin Edwards, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Drew Shindell, Felipe J. Colón-González, John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah McGough, Mauricio Santillana, Samuel S. Myers, Saleemul Huq, Jacqueline Patterson, Abrahm Lustgarten, Michael Taylor, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Elin Anna Labba, Sônia Guajajara, Solomon Hsiang, Taikan Oki, Marshall Burke, Eugene Linden, Kevin Anderson, Alexandra Urisman Otto, Bill McKibben, Glen Peters, Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Niclas Hällström, Jennie C. Stephens, Isak Stoddard, Rob Jackson, Alexander Popp, Michael Clark, Sonja Vermeulen, John Barrett, Alice Garvey, Ketan Joshi, Alice Larkin, Jillian Anable, Christian Brand, Annie Lowrey, Mike Berners-Lee, Silpa Kaza, Nina Schrank, Nicholas Stern, Sunita Narain, Jason Hickel, Amitav Ghosh, Stuart Capstick, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Kate Raworth, Per Espen Stoknes, Gidon Eshel, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, George Monbiot, Rebecca Wrigley, Margaret Atwood, Erica Chenoweth, George Monbiot, Michael E. Mann, Seth Klein, David Wallace-Wells, Naomi Klein, Nicki Becker, Disha A. Ravi, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Laura Verónica Muñoz, Ina Maria Shikongo, Ayisha Siddiqa, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Wanjira Mathai, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Olúfé mi O. Táíwò, and Robin Wall Kimmerer
