Award winning journalist Eugene Linden is the author of books, articles and essays about science, technology and the environment. His most recent book is "The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations," which explores the ways in which climate change has brought down past civilizations as well as the threat that weather extremes pose to our own. The book won the 2007
Grantham Prize Special Award of Merit.

He is also the author of the thought provoking, insightful, "The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability" (1998). In this book, Linden presents the thesis that rapid change is eminent and evident in climate conditions, the spread of infectious disease, volatile economic conditions, loss of biodiversity and other clues. The reader is then projected to 2050 as Linden presents the consequences of this instability. Somewhat of a doomsayer, the author's vision is not a pretty one: lethal plagues, deadly famine, catastrophic storms, economic collapse and more. But in the final analysis, some small hope is offered. "Over the millennia, humanity has proved to be an artful dodger of fate, a defier of limits, a surmounter of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and a master escape artist from traps laid by nature. Only the very brave or fool hardy would assert flatly that our resourceful species has finally exhausted its bag of tricks. Still, it is very late in the game." The book predicted many of the subsequent crises that have afflicted the world, including the rise of Islamic and other fundamentalisms, and the global economic crisis. In a review, the Rocky Mountain News hailed "The Future in Plain Sight" as the "book of the decade."

Other books by Linden include "Apes, Men and Language" (1974), "The Alms Race: the Impact of American Voluntary Aid Abroad" (1976), "Affluence and Discontent: the Anatomy of Consumer Societies" (1979), and "Silent Partners: the Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments" (1986), a New York Times notable book. Linden has been writing for Time magazine since 1987. Some of his award winning cover stories are "Doomed" (1995) exploring endangered tigers, "Megacities" (1993), dealing with overpopulation and "The World's Last Eden" (1992) about rain forest destruction. The author has been a frequent guest on radio and television shows ranging from The Daily Show to Firing Line and Good Morning America and a contributor to a wide range of periodicals from Foreign Affairs to National Geographic. .