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The Roundtable

An interview with Andrew Boyd about his new book "I Want a Better Catastrophe"

By Joe Donahue
Published April 3, 2023 at 11:34 AM EDT
New Society Publishers
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2023

With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers and asks them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?"

His book is "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor."

Andrew Boyd is a writer, humorist, activist, and CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign melding art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime on climate.

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