Turn the page, and we read about the international response to the Paris Climate Agreement’s failure to curb carbon emissions: the creation of “the Ministry for the Future,” a new agency “charged with defending all living creatures present and future who cannot speak for themselves, by promoting their legal standing and physical protection.” The chapters continue these free-wheeling shifts in point of view and narrative tone, propelling us through surprisingly readable treatises, academic discussions, and minutes from the ministry’s meetings, alongside first person accounts of, among others, refugee and slave labor experiences, Davos participants, of an ecoterrorist group, scientists working on Antarctic glaciers, and small model organizations working on sustainability and restoration…