The Doomsday Book

Coming soon

The Doomsday Book is a reckoning with what it means to be a live at the end of the — or at least a — world. Part climate memoir, part essay collection, and part cultural critique, the book follows me from my beginning as an earnest Mormon awaiting a very religious Armageddon, to an ex-believer and climate activist fighting a decidedly secular climate apocalypse.

My religious training had taught me that the world was always on the verge of ending, and that it was possible to be prepared. So why is the climate apocalypse — replete as it was with data and proof — prove so hard for many of us to accept, let alone prepare for? This book is a psychological exploration of how it feels to be alive at a time when so much is ending. It is a series of connected essays about how we orient ourselves to the climate crisis, and a chorus of questions about how we should feel and act at the end of one world and — I hope — the beginning of another one.