Climate Imagination by Ed Finn - ISBN: 9780262553667
Paperback
Hopeful climate futures imagined globally, inspiring action today for resilience.

Climate Imagination

Dispatches from Hopeful Futures

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  • Paperback

    392 pages

  • Release Date

    16 December 2025

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Summary

A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures, bringing together global voices to share stories of resilient communities based in real science.

When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic—megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a signal that the problem is so vast, so complex, that it’s out of our control. That narrative is compelling for some, but leaves others feeling hopeless, helpless, and disillusi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262553667
ISBN-10:026255366X
Author:Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:392
Release Date:16 December 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“[Climate Imagination] broadens my horizon about climate futures and it is a worthwhile read.”
Vector

“What changes are you going to be a part of, in your daily life and in your neighborhood? Will you take up birding and ask your city council to bird-proof your skyscrapers? Fly less? Will you apply to plant trees on your property, or will you lobby your state government about those execrable data centers? These questions have become unavoidable, but thanks to the work represented in Climate Imagination, they now inspire more excitement and curiosity in me than dread. There are worse places to start from. Time is thick.”
Strange Horizons

About The Author

Ed Finn

Joey Eschrich is Managing Editor at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University and Assistant Director of Future Tense, a partnership of ASU and New America on emerging technologies and society.

Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is Associate Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering.

Contributors: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Jason Anderson, Claire Armitstead, Libia Brenda, Azucena Castro, Andrea Chapela, Nalini Chhetri, Alejandra Espino del Castillo, Fabio Fernandes, Ed Finn, Pippa Goldschmidt, Adeline Johns-Putra, Joseph Kunkel, Ken Liu, Manjana Milkoreit, Gabriela Damian Miravete, Benjamin Ong, Hannah Onoguwe, Chinelo Onwualu, Martha Riva Palacio, Anna Pigott, Kim Stanley Robinson, Gu Shi, Vandana Singh, Nigel Topping, Emma T rzs, Iliana Vargas, Laura Watts, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Farhana Yamin

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