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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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