Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying the Planet--and How They Explain Themselves to Their Own Children

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The science is overwhelming, the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: Energy moguls like the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis. And yet they have put their profits and careers ahead of the health and welfare of the world's population-and even their own children and grandchildren. How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these men have wreaked? Horsemen of the Apocalypse takes a very personal look at this global crisis, literally bringing it home.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the board president of the Waterkeeper Alliance and author of the New York Times bestseller, Crimes Against Nature. He has been named by Time as one of the "Heroes for the Planet." Kennedy lives in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. Dick Russell is an acclaimed environmental writer, with a special expertise on the crisis that is confronting the world's oceans and fisheries. He is the author of Striper Wars: An American Fish Story and Eye of the Whale. He divides his time between Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California.