2 Time September 23, 2019
The Climate Issue
NORTH AMERICA
In Iowa, climate change
is a top-tier presidential
campaign issue
PG. 58
SOUTH AMERICA
The Amazon rain forest is
approaching the point of
catastrophic collapse
PG. 68
AFRICA
The Great Green Wall aims to
hold back the Sahara
PG. 44
EUROPE
Why Europeans are
burying carbon in peatlands
PG. 52
ASIA
To experience our scorching
future, visit Jacobabad,
Pakistan, temperature 51¡C
PG. 28
OCEANIA
Angelina Jolie on why
we must help vulnerable
Pacific Islanders
PG. 94
ANTARCTICA
The world’s seas rise
from here
PG. 90
THE CONTINENTS
2050: THE FIGHT FOR EARTH
COVER DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY BY TETSUYA TAKANO
ON THE COVER
Sand sculpture by
Toshihiko Hosaka
THE ESSAY
HOW WE SURVIVED
CLIMATE CHANGE
14 | It’s the year 2050. Bill
McKibben looks back at
30 years of adapting our
society and economy to
slow the great heating
THE VIEWPOINTS
22 | Former Vice President
Al Gore, conservationist
Jane Goodall, humanitarian
Graça Machel and others
THE OPTIMISTS
42 | Women wear an
outsize burden of global
warming; we profile 15 who
are on the front line of the
climate-change battle
THE FUTURE
100 | Children draw the
earth in 2050
CLIMATE
REPORT CARD
111 | Society’s to-do list for
the next 30 years
ENDNOTE
112 | Barbara Kingsolver’s
ode to the tundra, the tree,
the forest, the charred beams
of blackened coral
Above: A fire rages near the
Jacundá National Forest in Brazil’s
Amazon on Aug. 28
Photograph by Sebastián Liste—
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