LaGrange
One man's journey to save the world… from itself
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One man's journey to save the world… from itself
"I read this page-turner in one sitting. It's a deceptively fun read, full of drama and action, yet containing not only a radical and serious proposal to reverse climate change and save Earth from itself, but also a timely call for change, the kind of change that will lead to ever-lasting peace."
— Verified Amazon ReaderThe world is on fire. The ice is falling into the ocean. There are so many storms there are no names left to give them. And somewhere in Portland, Oregon, a grieving mathematician named Lance is sitting on his couch, watching it happen.
He couldn't save his wife. She went out into the extraordinary heat one day, just to help her neighbors, but the heat took her instead.
Lance has spent three years working out a solution to the warming that killed her. He knows it'll work. The math is sound. The physics holds. And now he has nothing left to lose.
Are you exhausted from caring about things that feel too large for one person to change?
Then join Lance on his journey to the truth of what still matters.
This is a novel about global warming — and the radical possibility that it is solvable. It's about world peace — and the notion that it is achievable. It is about grief and the permission to move through it into something larger than yourself.
It'll take you into space to see the world from out there — where there are no borders, no divisions, no us and them. Just one small luminous planet with everyone on it, together.
LaGrange will not tell you the world is fine. It will tell you something more useful: that you are not powerless. That one person still matters. That the root holds even when everything above ground looks dead.
It's time to stop playing small.
It's time to save the world.
The L1 Lagrange point is real. NASA has parked spacecraft there since 1996 — including SOHO and DSCOVR. It's the precise gravitational balance point between the Earth and the Sun, where an object placed with care requires almost no energy to stay.
Climate scientists have seriously studied what happens when you block just one percent of incoming solar radiation at L1. The peer-reviewed consensus: it's enough for the planet to begin to heal itself.
The science in LaGrange isn't fiction. It's underfunded, under-discussed, real research — waiting for someone to take it seriously enough to go further.
In 1988, a study published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution documented something extraordinary. During periods when a small group of people genuinely focused their collective intention on peace, measurable changes occurred in a conflict zone — war deaths dropped, crime dropped, emergency room visits dropped.
For a world of eight billion people, that number is approximately 8,000. Eight thousand people genuinely holding peace in their consciousness may be sufficient to measurably affect the trajectory of the entire planet.
Every morning, between 8 and 9am — in whatever time zone you are in — stop for ten minutes. Hold up the W. Think about World Peace. If 8,000 people do this in each time zone, the intention never stops. It follows the sun around the planet, unending, twenty-four hours a day.
Not just peace. World Peace.
"Pay attention. This is one of the good things."
— Sadie"It only takes one person to change himself. But it only takes 8,000 people to change the world."
— The yellow card"The root holds even when everything above ground looks dead."
— LaGrange"Welcome to the rest of your life."
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