A race with no finish line

Book chapters are organised into sections around calamities, food produce, fossil fuels and alternate power

Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Author: Simon Mundy

Publisher: William Collins

Price: Rs 599

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Socrates in his dialogues remembers Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, to say, “all things move and nothing remains still,” or change is the only constant. That saying is true for everything, including the climate. Why is climate change, then, not so obvious and such a concern? In his new book, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy narrates 27 stories of the experiences of 60 people and places, to answer this question.

These stories are about losers and winners. In