The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a book discussion withMcKenzie Funk and Luke Mitchell on Funk's new book Windfall: The booming business of climate change.

McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearly—as a market opportunity. Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these forces a potential windfall.

 Funk visits the front lines of the melt, the drought, and the deluge to make a human accounting of the booming business of global warming. By letting climate change continue unchecked, we are choosing to adapt to a warming world. Containing the resulting surge will be big business; some will benefit, but much of the planet will suffer. McKenzie Funk has investigated both sides, and what he has found will shock us all. To understand how the world is preparing to warm, Windfall follows the money.

McKenzie Funk grew up in Oregon and studied philosophy, literature, and foreign languages at Swarthmore College. Since 2000, his reporting has taken him all over the United States and to dozens of countries on six continents. A National Magazine Award finalist and former Knight-Wallace Fellow, he won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for a story about the melting Arctic and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his interview in Tajikistan with one of the first prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay. His writing has appeared in Harper's, National Geographic, Outside, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The New York Times. Mac is a founding member of the journalism collective Deca. Windfall is his first book.

Luke Mitchell is a writer and editor in Brooklyn. He was a senior editor of Harper’s Magazine and the deputy editor of Popular Science, and the stories he edited at those publications have received many honors, including the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the National Magazine Award for reporting. He is a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities and has written for, among other publications, the London Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

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