Climate Hope

Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis

David Geselbracht

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English

Douglas & McIntyre
16 July 2025

Conservation of the environment; Global warming

Through extensive research and reporting, this boundary-crossing and highly readable survey of efforts to tackle climate change aims to replace our paralyzing fears with a restored sense of hope and determination.

Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex-with threats so frightening in their implications-that many of us fend off confusion and hopelessness by simply turning away. There are jobs to do, children to raise, bills to pay. Meanwhile, with delayed action, missed targets and increasingly dire reports at the international level, a notion that the crisis is intractable continues to spread.

And the proposed solutions can be just as daunting. They often involve jargon about gigatons of carbon and kilowatt-hours of electricity. In a deeply polarized political environment, any sense of the common purpose required to make these work seems to dissolve into denial or paralysis. With all this fear and conflict, the question must be asked: How do we find the tools and-equally important-the hope we need to tackle such a wickedly difficult issue?

In Climate Hope, journalist David Geselbracht blends in-depth research, expert interviews and on-the-ground reporting in multiple countries, revealing remarkable efforts to identify the causes and impacts of climate change-and devise crucial ways to address them.

Geselbracht brings the reader to the chaotic 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, as well as to giant heating ducts below the city of Copenhagen and to wildfire-scorched landscapes in Western Canada, to name just a few sites. The scale of the challenge is clear in the range of fields he covers, from glaciology and climate science to law and diplomacy. But in drawing these approaches together, he shares stories of hope, awe and wonder that encourage us to confront this long-term, world-warping phenomenon with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.

By: David Geselbracht
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781771624268
ISBN 10: 1771624264
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 16 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Geselbracht is an environmental journalist and lawyer. His writing has appeared in Canadian Geographic, The Globe and Mail and Broadview Magazine, among others. David works as legal counsel for a national environmental NGO, and he and his wife live in BC's East Kootenays.

Reviews for Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis

""Climate Hope provides a much-needed counterpoint to today's constant drumbeat of climate doom. The world is making real progress in combating climate change, and it's important to highlight the successes we've had as well as how far we still have to go to meet our climate goals."" —Dr. Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist with Berkeley Earth and a contributing author to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. ""A refreshingly positive look at the future! David Geselbracht takes us around the world to look not only at the science that defines climate change and technologies that could fix it but also at the more subtle social, cultural, political, economic and even religious sectors that will all play a role in cutting carbon emissions. David introduces us to positive leaders in all those aspects of society who have come up with real solutions. There is still much to do, but this uplifting book and the hope it provides is a good place to start."" —Bob McDonald, author of The Future is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies and host of CBC’s Quirks & Quarks? ""Climate Hope is a story of human resilience, ingenuity, and innovation. From evangelical Christianity to nuclear power, Geselbracht offers us an inspiring collection of essays outlining the power of individual leadership in advancing climate solutions. This pragmatic, realistic and thoughtful book does justice to both the scale of the global warming problem, as well as the incredible opportunity it affords modern society. It’s a refreshing read, particularly as we confront the stories of wildfires, heat waves, floods and drought so prevalent today."" —Dr. Andrew Weaver, Climate scientist and former leader of the BC Green Party