As the World Burns: How a New Generation of Activists Is Leading the Landmark Case Against Climate Change

Award-winning investigative journalist Lee van der Voo reports on Juliana v. the United States. Combining unparalleled access to the plaintiffs and reporting on the natural disasters that form an urgent backdrop to the story, van der Voo shares a timely and important story about the environment, the law, and the new generation of activists.

In 2015, a group of kids sued the federal government over climate change. Their case has the potential to be the civil rights trial of our century, but it hasn't happened yet. Instead, both the Obama and Trump Administrations have deployed legal tactics to stymie the case, leaving our nation’s courts in a tangle.

In As the World Burns, Lee van der Voo tells the plaintiffs' story. Readers are introduced to 16-year-old Jayden Foytlin, whose Louisiana home has already flooded twice during her short lifetime, and to 21-year-old Jacob Lebel, whose Oregon farm is threatened by the planned path of a natural gas pipeline with dubious benefit. No matter their circumstances, all of the plaintiffs are fighting to prove that the government continues to knowingly destroy and endanger the climate system. Timely, important, and urgent, As the World Burns reveals the human side of the climate crisis, the dire effects of decades of inaction, and the potential pitfalls of tackling our environmental issues in the courts.

AUTHOR:
Lee van der Voo is an award-winning investigative and environmental journalist. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Guardian, and others. Lee’s reporting has received the Logan fellowship, the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and the Lizzie Grossman Grant for Environmental Health Reporting. Her first book, The Fish Market, won an Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction.

ISBN: 9781604699982
Author: VAN DER VOO, LEE
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/11/2020
RRP: $47.99
Pages: 284
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm
Imprint: Timber Press