Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
By Simon Mundy

As heard on BBC Radio 4'sand Start the Weekand with Andrew MarrOne of theand Financial Times' best books of 2021One ofand Geographicaland magazine's top ten books of 2021In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world - shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation.HOWand is China's green energy push driving a hazardous mining rush in Congo?WHYand is a maverick scientist building a home for engineered mammoths in northeast Siberia?CANand an Israeli fake meat startup make a fortune while helping to save the Amazon?WILLand Greenland's melting sea ice put its people at the centre of a global power struggle?WHOand are the entrepreneurs chasing breakthroughs in fusion power, electric cars, and technology to suck carbon from the atmosphere?As the impacts of climate change cascade across the planet and the global economy, who is battling to survive the worst impacts - and who is chasing the most lucrative rewards?Telling unforgettable human stories from six continents, this is an account of disaster, of promise, of frantic adaptation and relentless innovation, of hope, of survival, and of the forces that will define our future.More praise Vivid and informed'and ADAM NICOLSON I took a great sense of hope'and RICHARD POWERS Reads like a thriller'and MARK LYNAS An inspiring piece of work that deserves a broad audience'and MICHAEL E. MANN Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field'and ANAND MAHINDRA Gripping … A must-read for every concerned global citizen'and NANDAN NILEKANI