{"title":"Alan Weisman","description":"Alan Weisman has reported from all seven continents and in more than sixty countries. His books include the New York Times bestseller The World Without Us, translated into thirty-four languages and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of China's Wenjin Book Prize; and Countdown, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Orion, Mother Jones, Discover, and Salon, among others, and on NPR. A cofounder of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has also been laureate professor of international journalism at the University of Arizona. He and his wife, sculptor Beckie Kravetz, live in western Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"hope-dies-last-visionary-people-across-the-world-fighting-to-find-us-a-future-hardcover","title":"Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eHeatmap's\u003c\/i\u003e 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe World Without Us \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet's existential crisis. His new book, \u003ci\u003eHope Dies Last\u003c\/i\u003e, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core resolve of our species against the most precarious odds we have ever faced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo write this book, Weisman traveled the globe, witnessing climate upheaval and other devastations, and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to revived wetlands in Iraq, from the Netherlands and Bangladesh to the Korean DMZ and to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has encountered the best of humanity battling heat, hunger, rising tides, and imperiled nature. He profiles the innovations of big thinkers--engineers, scientists, conservationists, economists, architects, and artists--as they conjure wildly creative, imaginative responses to an uncertain, ominous future. 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Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists, Alan Weisman deftly illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory account, Alan Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, and radio waves may be our most lasting gifts to the universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other. 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