Mitigation or adaptation? This is the crucial question of the century of climate change. On the planet, we are the species at the top of the chain, not just the food chain; will we be able to act to mitigate the impact of our lifestyle that puts not only other species but also the social geography of the World's Factory at risk? What does Darwin, a man who said we come from mollusks, have to do with all this? What does Darwin have to do with isolation, migrations, adaptation and environmental pressure? Was Darwin a leftist? Now a rightist? Darwin who? 
A young climate activist overwhelmed by torrential rains in the Mojave Desert, the fundamentalist sheriff of Darwin, a town of 27 inhabitants on the border between California and Nevada, Emma, Charles's widow, and the monarch butterflies are all elements of the scenario around which Matthew Lenton and Marco Paolini have decided to work to tell the genesis of the most uncomfortable theory of scientific thought, today at risk of extinction (because it is difficult to domesticate), along with a good part of the planet's wild species.