The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic

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This book evolved from the crises of 2020: fighting a pandemic, climate catastrophe, and racial injustice. The author's previous book The Green New Deal and Beyond was published in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, so it, obviously, suffered from those limitations. Whereas The Green New Deal and Beyond exclusively focuses on climate policy, The Path examines the lessons to learned from 2020 to fight for climate justice and racial justice and prevent the next pandemic. The book, unlike any other, shows the crises' common causes and urgently argues that the best way to eradicate each is together. Cox's call for political change and cross-border solidarity will resonate deeply with those who support Black Lives Matter, environmental justice movements, and efforts to prevent future pandemics. Cox's plan's for reversing climate change is detailed and clear. Stan Cox's publishing profile, career, and agricultural work positions him has as a credible, common-sense voice for the necessity of making changes to national policy, social norms, and individual lifestyles. Written in clear language for all types of readers, the book's proposed solutions are concrete, common sense, and accessible. Foreword authored by Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, Executive Editor of YES Magazine and a leading contributor on matters of racial justice. The author has a strong media track record to build upon. This includes including A-list media interviews for his previous books on NPR Morning Edition, Marketplace, NPR's "1A", MSNBC, On Point, Here and Now, 99 Percent Invisible podcast, The Weather Channel, WNYC/NPR's The Brian Lehrer Show, CBC Radio, Salon, Architect Magazine, VICE Motherboard, ABC News, Chicago Tribune, Economist, Daily Mail, and FOX Business. Feature stories in New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Macleans, and National Post. Op-eds in Washington Post, NY Times, Guardian, Yale e360, & Al Jazeera.

Stan Cox began his career in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For twenty years Cox was the Lead Scientist at The Land Institute, where he currently serves as a research scholar in Ecosphere Studies. Cox is the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can; Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) and Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine. His writing about the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Kansas City Star, Arizona Republic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Salon, and Dissent, and in local publications spanning forty-three U.S. states. In 2012, The Atlantic named Cox their "Readers' Choice Brave Thinker" for his critique of air conditioning.

The Path to a Livable Future may be the most serious and thought-provoking new book on climate change available."-Don Fitz,New York Journal of Books "If you are a person who finds it difficult to cope with the environmental and climate crisis, The Path to a Livable Future furnishes a thoughtful, engaging introduction. If you are someone asking, but what can I do? - The Path to a Livable Future supplies both inspiration and ideas."-Jane K. Brundage, Resilience "Stan Cox cuts through the fog of mediocrity and offers a clear, honest vision for how social movements can win a truly just and sustainable society. There are few books I would recommend as wholeheartedly as this one. Don't miss it."-Jason Hickel, author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World "As Cox shows in this devastating but clear-eyed assessment, the multiple existential crises of our modern world-from climate change to pandemics-are interrelated and can be traced back to centuries of colonial domination of land and people."-Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock "Stan Cox stands in a class of his own. . . . The Path to a Livable Future is a testament to the fact that meaningful responses to the multifarious crises we face are unlikely to come-first and foremost-from traditional urban liberal strongholds."-Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Transforming our Lives for the Better "[Stan Cox] offers clear steps to achieving the state of being required to launch a desperate fight to save the Earth (and our position in it) from all-out disaster. . . . His latest book must be read and his clarion call heeded."- Romi Mahajan, Countercurrents