“This is a splendid and galvanizing book. In a worsening climate crisis that often generates despair, we need a direct call to action. Henry Shue speaks to us as ‘the pivotal generation’: we are at the date of last opportunity to act, there are no excuses, and if we immediately kick-start aggressive mitigation efforts we could save future people from vast harms. Shue writes luminously, leaving us in no doubt about the urgency of this moral imperative.”—Catriona McKinnon, author of Climate Change and Future Justice“Over the past three decades, political philosopher Henry Shue has done more than anyone else to keep justice at the center of the struggle to stop climate change. Piercing and clear-minded, this book lays down a sobering challenge. Will we, the pivotal generation, act on climate change as justice demands?”—Dale Jamieson, author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future“In The Pivotal Generation, Henry Shue argues that today’s citizens of developed countries—inheritors of fossil fuel benefits and liabilities—must grasp the mantle of leadership, confronting those choosing greed over the future. We have loaded the proverbial camel’s back to breaking, creating a moral obligation to halt our planetary plunge into the inferno. To be complacent is to be complicit. Future generations await our choice.”—Nancy Taylor Sorrells, historian and conservationist, Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley“This is a very important book on the most urgent problem of our times. Henry Shue shows that our generation has an undeniable moral responsibility to tackle the climate crisis right now. We must take control of our legacy, and avoid leaving an uninhabitable world behind.”—Ingrid Robeyns, Ethics Institute at Utrecht University