Reva Blau is a writer and middle-school ELL teacher. She leads professional development that teaches empowerment along lines of race, gender, and class that is grounded in restorative practice.

Judith Blau is professor emerita of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she chaired the social and economic justice undergraduate minor for many years. She was founder and director of the Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill-Carrboro.

Preface; 1. Background: Early Signs of Warming into the Present; 2. Extraction: Slavery and Capitalism; 3. Are We Helpless? Or Empowered?; 4. What Replaces Capitalism? The Circular Economy? Blockchain?; 5. Geoengineering; 6. Hands off Mother Earth; 7. The Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement; 8. The SDGs and COVID-19; 9. Turning the Page; 10. Conclusions: To End Capitalism; Glossary: Terms Relevant for (1) Global Warming, and (2) COVID-19; Index.