The Adaptation Imperative—Food Security and Climate Change

Mark Hertsgaard has written about global warming for more than two decades. As an Open Society Fellow, he researched Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which chronicles the need to adapt to the consequences of global warming while working to mitigate its catastrophic effects.

Hertsgaard’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, the Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Zeit, and many other publications. He is the author of five previous books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, including most recently The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).  His other books are Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (Broadway, 1999), A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (Delacorte, 1995), On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988), and Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy (Pantheon, 1983).

Sara J. Scherr, an agricultural and natural resource economist,  is the founder and president of Ecoagriculture Partners.  She serves on the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger and is the author of 13 books, including Farming with Nature: The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture.

Ross Gelbspan, a former editor and reporter at the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, is the author of two acclaimed books on climate change: Boiling Point and The Heat is On.