Not Too Late, various authors
Not Too Late, various authors
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Not Too Late
Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Author: various authors, Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Narrator: Hillary Huber, Robin Miles, various narrators, Soneela Nankani, Ramón de Ocampo, Vikas Adam, Kyla Garcia, Steven Jay Cohen, Katherine Littrell, Erin deWard, Deanna Anthony, Patryce Williams, Jenny Rich

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023

Synopsis

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively.In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, this book features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope.Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Anne Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph `Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton.

About Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster. Call Them by Their True Names won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won the Lannan Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the London Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.

About Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Thelma Young Lutunatabua is a digital storyteller and social-media manager for 350.org. She supports teams all over the world to tell their own climate stories.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.

About Soneela Nankani

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.

About Ramón de Ocampo

Ramón de Ocampo, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was a cowinner in 2018 of the Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has been seen on television, film, and stages all over the world, including recurring roles on such television shows as The West Wing, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, and Medium. He is the winner of a prestigious Obie Award for his stage work.

About Vikas Adam

Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor with numerous credits in stage, film, commercials, and television, in addition to his hundreds of recorded audiobooks. In 2025 he was named a Golden Voice, AudioFile magazine’s lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators. His narrations have garnered numerous other awards and nominations, including more than twenty-five AudioFile Earphones Awards, various Best of the Year lists, and the prestigious Audie Award. He was an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.

About Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.

About Steven Jay Cohen

Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts.

About Katherine Littrell

Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the U.K. but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron

Journalist Bounds writes about breaking out of her middle aged malaise through participation in obstacle course racing. Progressing from hoping simply to finish an event to being a competitive age grouper, Bounds checks in with leading sport scientists, researchers and authors and details a lot of c......more

Goodreads review by Marne - Reader By the Water

Thanks, Ballantine, for offering me an advanced review copy of this memoir. I loved its message about “humans’ capacity to tap inner reserves, face fears, locate intrinsic motivation, and push boundaries at any life stage.” In her mid-forties, the author outsmarts the “midlife assassin” by choosing a......more

Goodreads review by Darren

Enjoyed this one a lot, although it has made me feel quite lazy.......more

Goodreads review by Christie

This is a great, inspiring book about doing something with your life instead of just getting old, slow, fat, and sick. This author was only my (current) age when she found herself, a lifelong non-athlete, looking for a challenge to stave off mortality. She found Spartan racing, a type of obstacle co......more

Goodreads review by J

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC. 📚 Gwendolyn Bounds’s “Not Too Late” is a powerful and inspiring exploration of what’s possible when we challenge our perceived limitations. In this science-based memoir, Bounds takes us on her remarkable midlife journey—from an unathletic office e......more

Quotes

“An energizing read that will undoubtedly give you hope—the active type, not the passive kind—for the future.” Vogue

“Robin Miles and Ramón de Ocampo do excellent work, as does Hillary Huber. Erin deWard—whose voice for Solnit has a tone of drama—is especially convincing…This is an uncommon audiobook that takes on a formidable issue and leaves the listener hopeful.” AudioFile

“Not Too Late will help you to put you a little more at ease. Exactly as it promises on the cover.” Harper’s

“Realistic…while also issuing a hopeful call to action so that people can avoid the worst outcomes.” Foreword Reviews

“A remarkable global group of scientists, activists, artists, organizers, and journalists…redefine the climate movement in a bid to overcome the paralysis of confusion, skepticism, and despair.” Booklist

“An inspiring guidebook…A book that provides some brightness, passion, and intelligence in dark times.” Kirkus Reviews

“Absolutely beautiful, absolutely necessary, and absolutely right! Two of our greatest climate voices have rounded up many more realistic and determined colleagues who help us see the path ahead much more clearly!” Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author

“Not Too Late is the exact message we need today…Grab this book, read up, and let’s get to work.” Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA

“These authors show us what’s possible…a world where we stop climate change, restore nature, improve human wellbeing, address long-standing problems of equity and justice, and leave our descendants a world we can be proud of.” Dr. Jonathan Foley, executive director, Project Drawdown

“Giving up on humanity by giving up on solving the climate crisis is not an option. This book uniquely provides strategic direction on how we can create the future we need, the future we all want. It also gives us the imaginative and emotional prowess to strengthen our courage and creativity along the way.” Don Cheadle, award-winning actor, climate activist, and board member of the Solutions Project

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