'This book makes you feel like you're living through the traumatic birth of Bangladesh, a beautiful and resilient country that has overcome near-impossible odds. But if we don't quickly bring climate change under control, those experiences of our past could foreshadow our next great global tragedy. The Vortex is a stark reminder that the power of nature can either be tempered by human wisdom or amplified by our shortsighted greed and hunger for power. An epic tale indeed!' -Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, educator, environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org

'This is a rich tale of a terrible cyclone and the human folly that deepened the tragedy. Grippingly written, it is both a powerful history of the creation of modern Bangladesh and an urgent warning about our precarious common future on our rapidly heating planet.' -Gary J. Bass, author of The Blood Telegram

'Among the greatest threats posed by climate change are dangerous supercharged storms powered by warming oceans. But their catastrophic destruction isn't limited to lives and property; sometimes even entire political ecosystems are at risk. In The Vortex, Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us on a riveting journey into the deadliest storm ever. They reveal not only the devastating human toll but also how it triggered a horrific genocide and war. In the absence of meaningful climate action, climate disasters threaten to increasingly force humans into conflict, making The Vortex an urgent wake-up call for our shared global future.' - Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University, and author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

Jason Miklian, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. Miklian has published over sixty academic and policy works on issues of conflict and crisis, based on extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, Colombia, India and the Congo. He serves on the United Nations Expert Panel on Business and Human Rights, has won several awards for his academic publications, and serves as an expert resource for various government knowledge banks in the US, the UK, the EU and Norway. Miklian has also written for or been cited in an expert capacity by the New York Times, the BBC, The Economist, Washington Post, France 24, The Guardian, The Hindu and NPR.