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"From CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti, a ""vivid"" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) and ""stunning"" (Booklist) character-driven call to action on our climate, told through the stories of the pioneering Americans working to persevere as leadership inaction risks the very survival of our heartland and hometowns. Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. And many politicians, cloistered by status and focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don't take any action at all. But climate change, and its devastating consequences, has kept apace whether we want to pay attention or not. CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has seen that crisis unfold for himself, spending nearly two decades reporting across the United States (and the world) documenting the people, communities, landmarks, and traditions we've already surrendered. Vigliotti shares with urgency and personal touch the story of an America on the brink. Before It's Gone traces Vigliotti's travels across the country, taking him to the frontlines of climate disaster and revealing the genuine impacts of climate change that countless Americans have already been forced to confront. From massive forest fires in California to hurricanes in Louisiana, receding coastlines in Massachusetts and devastated fisheries in Alaska, we learn that warnings of a future impacted by climate are no more; the climate catastrophe is already here. This is the story of America, and Americans, on the edge, and a powerful argument that radical action on climate change with a respect for its people and traditions is not only possible, but also the only way to preserve what we love."

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"""Before It's Gone is an account of a TV journalist on the climate beat that reads like it was written by Indiana Jones on Red Bull. Jonathan Vigliotti climbs redwoods, braves wildfires, chases storms, and interviews war refugees in a globe-hopping narrative that captures both the human drama of climate crisis and the challenges a broadcast journalist faces bringing this story to the world in real-time."" --Jeff Goodell, author of New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First ""With urgency and empathy, Jonathan Vigliotti documents the disastrous consequences of climate change in rural America and the hard work of those determined to hold their communities together. An energetic--and energizing--report from an often-overlooked front line in the climate crisis."" --Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction ""From animal extinctions and habitat destruction to the collapse of entire human communities, Before It's Gone documents the toll of climate change on people and places around the world, asking us to stop, listen, and take action--while we still can."" --Beth Shapiro, evolutionary molecular biologist and author of Life as We Made It and How to Clone a Mammoth ""Jonathan Vigliotti's work has propelled him into hurricanes, wildfires, crop failures, and tornado-maimed towns across America. In Before It's Gone, the CBS correspondent ably guides us through these scenes of ecological disaster, giving us an intimate and in-the-moment understanding of the world's climate emergency--and leaving little doubt that we're in for much, much worse."" --Earl Swift, New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem ""We call it 'global warming, ' but as this fine book makes clear it takes its toll one place at a time--and every one of those places is loved and mourned."" --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature ""Before It's Gone is a page-turning tour de force. Personal, provocative, empathetic, and ultimately optimistic, this book is the perfect guide to what climate change actually means on the ground, to real people and communities."" --Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs"

"""Before It's Gone is a page-turning tour de force. Personal, provocative, empathetic, and ultimately optimistic, this book is the perfect guide to what climate change actually means on the ground, to real people and communities."" --Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ""We call it 'global warming, ' but as this fine book makes clear it takes its toll one place at a time--and every one of those places is loved and mourned."" --Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature"

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Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning CBS News national correspondent whose work has appeared on numerous platforms including CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, 48 Hours, and more. His reporting has taken him to more than forty countries and territories across six continents. Follow him on Twitter @JonVigliotti. Before It's Gone is his first book.

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