2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been
sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but
it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of human life on
Earth is interconnected and at risk. While the virus quickly spread
across the globe, extreme weather events compounded the suffering and
economic catastrophe. In the U.S., public demonstrations of outrage over
the murder of George Floyd expanded to include a growing awareness of
the pandemic's disproportionate impact on communities of color. In
cities around the world, people took to the streets to protest racial
inequity in all of its forms.
In The Path to a Livable Future,
Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing
us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With
a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work
together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our
vulnerability to future pandemics all at once. Our future depends on it.
"An
iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to
following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous
that turns out to be."—Naomi Klein
"Cox lays out a
refreshingly grounded roadmap for the survival of all life on earth,
based on up-to-date science, and anchored in the racial justice
imperative."—Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black.
"Above
all, he shows that a healthy, just, sustainable future is possible if
we reduce our ecological footprint and share the earth's gifts
equitably. For this we need to organize, resist, imagine, and forge
another path together."—Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
