Samuel C. Avery is a solar installer and the author of nine books. He lives in Hart County, Kentucky.

“Sam Avery can think deeply, write clearly and plan brilliantly. Best of all, he can inspire us the build a sustainable future that we the people co-create together. This will become a primary organizing tool in the movement to boycott carbon. We need it yesterday.”—Mary Pipher, author of Women Rowing North

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: They Only Sell What We Buy 11—The Physical Facts 72—Why Is This Happening? 153—Timetable for the End of Fossil Fuel 264—So Much for Talk. How Do We Walk the Walk? 375—Tea, Salt, Buses, and Apartheid 616—People First 1247—Divestment as a Power Tool 1288—Food 1339—A Tale of Two Cities: Louisville and Cincinnati 14810—The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 15711—Committing to the Boycott 167Bibliography 183Index 185