Tucson Festival of Books

Our Planet is in Peril


Climate change, PFAS chemical contaminations, mass extinctions, and our efforts to feed 8+ billion people are pushing our planet beyond its limits. These crises are connected and existential. These authors describe the challenges if we fail to take action and the visionaries who are tackling them.


Panelists
Mariah Blake

Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University....

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Kenneth Rosen

Kenneth R. Rosen is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents, and was a two time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED....

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Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman has reported from all seven continents and more than 60 countries. His books include The New York Times bestseller "The World Without Us," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award....

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Books:
They Poisoned the World
Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Mariah Blake
Science / Medicine / Technology
Random House
May 2025
ISBN 9781524760090
320 pages
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Polar War
Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
Kenneth Rosen
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Simon & Schuster
January 2026
ISBN 9781668052334
304 pages
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Hope Dies Last
Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
Alan Weisman
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
April 2025
ISBN 9781524746698
512 pages
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