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Award-winning investigative journalist Lee van der Voo reports on Juliana v. the United States. Combining unparalleled access to the plaintiffs and reporting on the natural disasters that form an urgent backdrop to the story, van der Voo shares a timely and important story about the environment, the law, and the new generation of activists.
“As the World Burns is a deeply human account of an extraordinary group of young people, a cast of characters whose courage, anguish and idealism guide them through battle against entrenched power and a broken political system. Gripping, essential reading.” ―Beth Gardiner, author of CHOKED
In 2015, twenty-one kids across America sued the federal government over climate change, arguing their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property were being violated. Theirs was to be the civil rights trial of our century. But it hasn't happened yet. Instead, their day in court slipped by while Trump Administration deployed rare legal tactics to stymie the case, leaving our nation's courts in a tangle and legal observers aghast.
In As the World Burns, investigative reporter Lee van der Voo recaps a year in their wait for a trial. It unfolds against the backdrop of cataclysmic floods and wildfires, rising seas and hurricanes, and an epic Congressional fight for power with a president who refuses to acknowledge any of it. Along the way, 15-year-old Jayden Foytlin battles the oil politics of south Louisiana, her home having flooded twice. Jacob Lebel, 20, works to protect his Oregon farm from a proposed natural gas pipeline with dubious benefit. And 11-year-old Levi Draheim fights to save the barrier island he calls home as the seas rise and hurricanes force evacuations.
Timely, important, and urgent, As the World Burns is climate breakdown like you've never seen it―through the eyes of the young. It hits home the dire consequences of inaction and the potential pitfalls of leaving the fate of the planet in the hands of U.S. court system.
