Why would these people choose to get arrested, attacked, jailed, screamed at, and even deported when they could be peacefully looking at beautiful paintings or watching tennis? The answer is more powerful than any army, police, billionaire, or oil company.”

‘Climate’ is not a thing — it is an everything. If we allow this ‘everything’ to be destroyed, we go extinct. This explains the intensity of passion and commitment that flows out of the pages of this book. There are no words to comprehend the cost of failure.”

A rare inside account of how movements are built, the dilemmas activists face, and the courage required. Honest, thoughtful and often deeply moving — it deserves to be read by activists, policymakers, and anyone who believes another future is still possible.”

Part political thriller, part strategic analysis, and part cri de coeur, this book brings you inside the most energetic and prominent climate movement in recent years.”

A22 did something almost no one has ever done: it incubated mass protest movements in multiple countries at once. Every activist should be studying this — and there are vanishingly few documents that explain the experiment as clearly as this one.”

This book doesn’t just tell you why climate activists take direct action — it shows what it actually costs them. And it shows how taking action, even imperfect, difficult action, can turn grief into agency and isolation into solidarity.”

An important testimony to the courage, contradictions and human cost of nonviolent civil resistance, this book is an urgent call for societal introspection and not only to resist repression, but to recover the moral courage required to confront it.”

A movement memoir written by activists who have already done the strategic thinking themselves — and have no intention of leaving it to the historians.”