Path to a Livable Future

Stan Cox began his career in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For twenty years Cox was the Lead Scientist at The Land Institute, where he currently serves as a research scholar in Ecosphere Studies.  Cox is the author of The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can; Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) and Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine. His writing about the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Kansas City Star, Arizona Republic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Salon, and Dissent, and in local publications spanning forty-three U.S. states. In 2012, The Atlantic named Cox their “Readers' Choice Brave Thinker” for his critique of air conditioning.

The Path to a Livable Future may be the most serious and thought-provoking new book on climate change available."—Don Fitz,New York Journal of Books"If you are a person who finds it difficult to cope with the environmental and climate crisis, The Path to a Livable Future furnishes a thoughtful, engaging introduction. If you are someone asking, but what can I do? – The Path to a Livable Future supplies both inspiration and ideas."—Jane K. Brundage, Resilience"Stan Cox cuts through the fog of mediocrity and offers a clear, honest vision for how social movements can win a truly just and sustainable society. There are few books I would recommend as wholeheartedly as this one. Don't miss it."—Jason Hickel, author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World"As Cox shows in this devastating but clear-eyed assessment, the multiple existential crises of our modern world—from climate change to pandemics—are interrelated and can be traced back to centuries of colonial domination of land and people."—Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author of As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock"Stan Cox stands in a class of his own. . . . The Path to a Livable Future is a testament to the fact that meaningful responses to the multifarious crises we face are unlikely to come—first and foremost—from traditional urban liberal strongholds."—Felix Marquardt, author of The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Transforming our Lives for the Better“[Stan Cox] offers clear steps to achieving the state of being required to launch a desperate fight to save the Earth (and our position in it) from all-out disaster. . . . His latest book must be read and his clarion call heeded.”— Romi Mahajan, Countercurrents

• The Path to a Livable FutureA NEW POLITICS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, RACISM, AND THE NEXT PANDEMICBY STAN COX TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface The Cruelest Year The Tangled Roots of Our Predicaments A To-Do List for the 2020s Can We Beat the Odds? Endnotes About the Author