Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner Chris Turner on How to Be a Climate Optimist

“The climate debate is inherently pessimistic, and while Chris Turner doesn’t pretend that crafting policy to slow global warming is easy, he presents a compelling argument: gloom and doom is not an effective strategy. How to Be a Climate Optimist is a self-help guide for the planet and a masterclass in brisk, vivid storytelling. Turner gives us a crisp, upbeat tour d’horizon of gee-whiz innovation coupled with a strongly argued case that we - politicians, voters, and citizens - just need the will to reach for the solutions taking shape before our eyes.”
- 2023 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury (Terri E. Givens, Nik Nanos, and Jacques Poitras)
About the Book
Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged - from green islands in Denmark, to eco-office parks in southern India, and solar panel factories in California. In How to Be a Climate Optimist, Turner condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into apportionable pieces of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it.
About Chris Turner
Chris Turner is one of Canada’s leading voices on climate change solutions and the global energy transition. His book The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands won the National Business Book Award. He was shortlisted for the same prize for The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy and The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need. His feature writing has appeared in publications including the Walrus, the New Yorker, and the Guardian, among others, and has earned him ten National Magazine Awards. Turner lives in Calgary.
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I am reading this book and found that all important hope and good will needed to face a certain future. Thank you. 😊