Forty years after a freshman congressman named Al Gore held the first committee hearing in the House of Representatives on global warming, Washington has finally taken serious action to counter the threat. The new bill that Joe Biden just signed is expected to unleash a clean-energy revolution.

But it is not enough. Biden promised that America would cut its greenhouse emissions by 50 percent by 2030. The new legislation won’t get us the whole way there..

And can we wait another decade when devastating floods, punishing droughts and wildfires are destroying lives and livelihoods? When cities are getting so hot that train tracks buckle? When the specter of climate-driven famines is upon us?

We as citizens need to do more than yell at the TV or turn down our air conditioners. That’s thinking too small. Ask investigative journalist Justin Gillis and energy policy expert Hal Harvey, who lay out an action plan to drive America’s greenhouse-gas emissions down to zero in The Big Fix.

The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is honored to welcome them and Vice President Al Gore to launch this important book during NYC’s Climate Week and to share stories of the thousands of Americans who aren’t waiting for Washington, who are organizing locally and thinking BIG about the planet’s future.

(Read their bios here!)