I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers

With global heating projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a cri…

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