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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

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curatoriallyyours's review

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challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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sorcha's review against another edition

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informative reflective sad slow-paced

2.75

The author makes some very good points but the structure and writing style was repetitive and irritating in places so it was a struggle to finish
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festive_fossil's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It was not at all what I was expecting. I thought this was going to be like documentaries I have watched on climate change or industrial animal agriculture where there are a lot of hard facts and some emotional appeals. This book had those, too, but it was also philosophical, an inner journey of the author trying to understand his own apathy over something he knows definitively is an existential threat.  This was an emotional one for me because it hit so close to home, perfectly articulating the cognitive dissonance of knowing you can, in fact, do something to halt climate change and yet...not doing what is necessary. This set of essays (I hesitate to use narrative for the whole) tips back and forth between despair and hope and leaves you only with the knowledge that we can only do this collectively. I just finished this today so my thoughts are still scattered, but I will be reading through a second time and may be able to update this review with more. However, what I can say is that I will be recommending this to everyone I know.
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anouks_books's review

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3.0

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