Ultra Wild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth by Steve Mushin. Graphic Universe, 2025. 9798765647073. 91pp.
This is inventor Steve Mushin’s nonfiction graphic novel of ideas for saving the world from climate change. At its heart is the idea of rewilding the earth to capture carbon. Mushin takes inspiration from science and his own outlandish imagination to inspire others to use theirs. Some of the ideas he comes up with and illustrates: compost-firing cannons attached to toilets with legs, turning cities into vast forests where humans share space with animals with the help of recycled plastics and printers (including self-replicating bird-shaped printers), and much more. Mushin continually acknowledges the tough road ahead of us and the science at the heart of his solutions to climate change.
Epic. Oversized! Plus it’s a beautifully illustrated and fun book full of science. It belongs in every school and public library.
