In 2015, twenty-one kids across America sued the federal government over climate change, arguing their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property were being violated. Theirs was to be the civil rights trial of our century. But it hasn't happened yet. Instead, their day in court slipped by while Trump Administration deployed rare legal tactics to stymie the case, leaving our nation's courts in a tangle and legal observers aghast. Timely, important, and urgent, As the World Burns is climate breakdown like you've never seen it—through the eyes of the young. It hits home the dire consequences of inaction and the potential pitfalls of leaving the fate of the planet in the hands of U.S. court system.