Writing

ANTHROPOCENE is the story of a time traveler from the future who helps to avert a climate apocalypse that is just beginning to form today. It goes something like this:

In the year 2025, an aggressively changing climate triggers a series of events that cause Earth’s systems to begin breaking down. By the 2050s, the world is nothing but small, scattered pockets of people that have reverted to the Dark Ages, a time known as The End. By 2100, civilization as we know it has ended. Only EARTH—a community of scientists and their families living in isolation on a tropical island—is living in relative civility, as they try and create a plan to restore humanity and heal the earth.

March 2100. Eminent environmentalist Johann Schweitzer is scouring the remains of the internet for information on the climate tipping points from 2025 that led to The End, when he comes across an old chat room run by his hero, lead environmentalist at the UNEP, Hunter McLeod. This is no ordinary chat room, though. This chat room gives Johann direct communication with Hunter himself, back in 2025. Rather than question this miracle, Johann decides to take full advantage of it and try to change history for the better.

After earning Hunter’s trust—and without mentioning that he’s from the future—Johann puts together a plan to feed Hunter the solutions to the top four tipping points and assemble a team that will help Hunter to turn the tide of climate catastrophe. Yet as they launch Johann’s plan, an unexpected series of crises unfold, threatening to derail the plan’s success—and Johann must think fast on his feet to solve them. Doubt starts to creep in: Can Johann change history from the future and stop a global catastrophe? And he worries that if his plan successfully prevents the apocalypse he was born into, he may never actually be born.