One of my summer 2021 readings:

 

The planet is saved from climate collapse over several decades starting in January 2025 with the installation of the new UN Ministry with HQ in Zurich. The author of this 2020 500-page tome doesn't attempt integral literature. He weaves together the experiences of the Minister, Irish-born international diplomat Mary Murphy, with an up-to-date panoply of journalistic matter: essays about civilization's suicidal trends, white papers, vignettes by relevant "spokespersons": refugees, climate scientists, regenerative farmers, engineers, economists, diplomats. Particularly striking were: the re-glaciation of Antarctica; establishing "Half Earth" by gradually moving people off and re-wilding by saving and re-introducing important species; paying everyone who can to practice regenerative agriculture; economic turn-around over two decades; and the granting of UN passports to the stateless. 

The Ministry for the Future is not exactly light reading, but it lightens the pressure by projecting twenty years forward positive directions already in place. Indeed the triumphant last chapters include an around the revived world tour from an airship and a worldwide meditation moment of Mama GAIA gratitude by three or four billion.