"The climate change issue, what we're confronting, it's impossible. It is beyond us. But then, on the other hand, throughout history the most interesting things have been in those moments in history when people decided to do the impossible and that's what we need to do now. And that's what we will do now." - Rankin MacSween, Thinkers Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. Climate Change and the Human Prospect documents the vision created at the Climate Change and the Human Prospect: A Thinkers Retreat held at Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. On the 60th Anniversary of the Inaugural Pugwash Conference on Nuclear Disarmament held in 1957, twenty-four global and regional Thinkers, armed with the conviction that local action is not only possible but also the best path forward, gathered to define a path to restore and revitalize local communities in the face of climate change. In the compelling setting of the Thinkers Lodge where scientists and scholars from all over the world have stayed and tackled the world's most pressing issues through the power of dialogue, Climate Change and the Human Prospect captures the thoughts, emotions and ideas of these Thinkers - scientists, economists, municipal councillors, planners, artists, community activists, First Nations and Eastern wisdom representatives, the Project Drawdown Director and others - as they articulate global warming's cascading impact on small, rural, and coastal communities and focus on actionable, locally-oriented and forward-motion climate change plans.