Our Time
Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis
[I apologize for self-promotion – as a first-time writer I do need to promote my own book …]
Today (January 8), my first book written in English – Our Time: Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis – was published by Bloomsbury.
Our Time is about a four-billion-year journey to a single moment in time, when one species gets to decide to protect all that it cherishes, or to stand by and watch as the climate crisis engulfs it all. I tell this story as a professor of geology, who did not understand what it all meant, until it was explained to me by the children of the world.
In Our Time, I write about hope – the kind of hope that climate justice activist Andreas Magnusson refers to when he says “hope is a verb”. This is the hope that comes from acknowledging that the climate crisis is really a crisis and from embracing our fear so that it empowers us with the will to act. And by acting we create the hope we long for.
The hope I write about is neither based on fictive technical solutions nor framed within the limits of an out-of-date economic system. It is hope founded in wonder for the vastness of the beautiful world we are a part of.
Our Time can be purchased from Bloomsbury (in the UK), as well as online retailers such as Bokus or Akademibokhandeln (in Sweden) and Amazon (in the rest of the EU, the US and the rest of world).
Reviews
A remarkable account of the Earth’s long history and our very odd and dangerous moment in that story, from someone who has the both the scientific credibility to tell the story, and the human courage to be doing something about it!”
Bill McKibben, author, “Here Comes the Sun”
Professor Alasdair Skelton is a well-established Earth scientist gifted at explaining complex scientific concepts to the general public. In Our Time: Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis, Skelton masterfully explains the scientific basis for humans’ imprint on the climate, the impacts of global warming, and a much-needed view of the hope we can have for the future. The author’s personal experiences of living in a warming world bring his message to a level we can all relate to. The book is well-grounded in scientific literature and clearly referenced, so the curious reader can explore concepts in more detail. It is a must-read for people from all walks of life.
Todd A. Ehlers, professor and head of school, University of Glasgow
For the first time since I began my journey as a climate justice activist in 2018, I find myself completely engulfed in a book about the climate crisis. For so long I have waited and longed for a book with a real story that is filled with the kind of storytelling we really, really need. The kind of storytelling that gives a perspective on time and our age on this Earth that makes me relate to and understand my surroundings in a completely new and so, so refreshing way. I can only say: read it!
Andreas Magnusson, climate justice activist
Thank you for reading this.