Excellent read of what I can do as a citizen and steward of earth to reverse climate change and make a difference for my child’s future on this planet

Fantastic concept, great science writing for a broad audience! Kinda repetitive at parts but I think people who don’t regularly work in climate change spaces will appreciate the time it takes to explain things

This book is different to other books about climate.

It's different because it talks about the attitude you should have around the crisis. That the world is a positive sum game, that others don't have to lose for you to win. That optimism wins over pesimism. I really enjoyed that this was a life lesson teaching book not a book just about climate.

I'm reinvigorated, I see my friends who raise their eyebrows when you're speaking for the upteenth time about climate - this book gave me a boost of energy.

I recommend this book to anyone who is in in a similar position to me.

I read this for school and the talk on climate change is such an important thing. This was a good read when it comes it understanding climate change a little better.

unbelievably inspiring and invigorating book. 5 stars for the world we must create and stubborn optimism even if the rest of the book wasn’t as amazing as it is.

The writers of this book would like to remind you that they helped draw up the Paris Climate Agreement.
Don't worry if you forget, it comes up quite a lot. Shoe-horned in in some quite spectacular ways.
Which is probably the most impressive thing about this book. At this stage, it's about the only reason it exists - to remind the authors, and us, that they once did a grand thing before the populist movement pissed all over it.
Sadly, there's no other reason for this book to have been published.
If you know and care about climate change, you don't need to read this book.
If you don't care about climate change, and by proxy you'll claim to know everything while knowing nothing, you won't want to read this book.
Still, that Paris deal, eh? That was good while it lasted...

“When the story changes, everything changes.”
― Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose

It's been said in other ways at other times, nevertheless it's a universal and timeless maxim, that we can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. This book is a way of looking at our most serious global problem from a new, refreshing perspective. And there are ideas presented here which I believe can bring us together more than ever.

From an outside perspective, if the planet's divided dominant species were viewed by aliens, we appear to be stuck in a self-destructive pattern. How to get out? It can't be enough to solely hold polluters to account for the harm they're causing. True, as the authors eloquently put forward, having a carbon price would help, so that there's a price to pay for damaging planetary livable conditions. But that's putting out fires while new ones are started in other areas of accelerating unregulated overconsumption. There are better ideas than a system based on infinite growth tied to an ever-increasing greenhouse effect, as this book shows. For example, sustainable economical models exist which have mechanisms that both ensure the protection of natural riches and open up many new consequential jobs richer in meaning. We always prosper when we're safe from harm. There can be a different story, as is told not just here but in Kim Stanley Robinson's books as well.

“We're trying to set things up so that in the future, over the long haul, something like justice will be created. Some long-term ledger of more good than bad.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

After reading The Future We Choose, I've reached a surprisingly optimistic conclusion. The authors' expanded perspective has let me see that we've been busy pointing fingers at the culprits instead of paying attention to the motive, the economic system people are trapped in. And so the one thing that protects our equally shared global home in which no family member is left behind is system change. Lasting change requires long-term thinking building on the knowledge that everything is interconnected and thereby interdependent. We have the knowledge. Another world is possible.

“Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

I’d recommend this book to people who currently enjoy living on planet Earth and would like to continue to do so, for themselves and for their future descendants.

If you are going to read one nonfiction book a year then you should choose this one. Find three hours to read this important book. This book clearly articulates the urgency of our climate crisis, while providing action items.