The page-turner on the climate crisis. We are in a thriller. You and I. Not as reader and author, but as actors. This thriller has been unfolding since time immemorial, constantly changing its title. Currently, it is called climate crisis, pandemic, digitalization, terrorism. In the past, it was known as the Cold War, arms race, and before that, World War II, World War I.

But we have never been exposed to so many potential horrors at once as we are today. So if you have temporarily diverted your attention from climate protection to cope with a pandemic, that is simply human. However, that does not change the fact that climate change represents perhaps the greatest existential threat in our history, and like a virus, it does not negotiate. It’s time to get back to action. The good news is: We can overcome the challenge. With knowledge, willpower, positive thinking, creativity, a love for life on our planet, and a bit of personal heroism, just like in a thriller. From now on, we all play a leading role – each of us, including you!

Scientifically grounded, thrilling, and never without humor, Frank Schätzing outlines various scenarios of our future, where we have sometimes failed and sometimes triumphed. We meet the protagonists and antagonists, responsible figures from politics, business, and society, encounter activists, deniers, and conspiracy theorists, before the view opens up to the overwhelming panorama of what is possible, and the author shows ways to escape the climate trap and how everything can still turn out well, no, even better. Saving the world is possible – if only we want to.