Date & Time: Thursday, February 24th at 6pm

Location: Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State Street

For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for news outlets such as the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Nation. But the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon thereafter, learned that climate change had, in fact, already arrived—a century earlier than forecast—with impacts bound to worsen for decades to come. Now, Hertsgaard has written a book about how all of us—as individuals, communities, companies and countries—can navigate this unsettling new era. Taking Bill McKibben’s Eaarth to the next essential step, Hot offers examples of how we might live through the next　fifty years on earth.　The result is a deeply informed message of hope that will enable parents, young people, and all readers to make the best　choices in the years ahead.　Combining reporting from across the nation and around the world with reflections on his daughter’s future, Hertsgaard provides “pictures” of what is expected over the next fifty years: Chicago’s climate transformed to resemble Houston’s; dwindling water supplies and crop yields at home and abroad; the redesign of New York and other cities against mega-storms and sea-level rise. Above all, he shows who is taking wise, creative precautions. For in the end, Hot is a book about how we’ll survive.