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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
4.15 AVERAGE
468 reviews for:
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
4.15 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
If you want to get (more) depressed, read this book as it perfectly sums up all the ways in which we have been fucking up the planet.
It’s pretty basic information that you probably already know and I also found the suggestions on what you can do to reverse climate change (mentioned in the appendix) a little obvious (shower less and cold, don’t buy plastic, don’t take the plane, buy less, don’t eat meat etc) which, sure, all of this will help but I’m not gonna reverse the sea levels rising by taking a cold shower every once in a while. Bigger changes need to happen and I’m slowly starting to loose hope that they will, since our world still revolves around money. That’s why at the same time, I can appreciate the book for kind of having the same tone of voice in that human extinction is probably gonna happen anyway. The only question is when.
It’s pretty basic information that you probably already know and I also found the suggestions on what you can do to reverse climate change (mentioned in the appendix) a little obvious (shower less and cold, don’t buy plastic, don’t take the plane, buy less, don’t eat meat etc) which, sure, all of this will help but I’m not gonna reverse the sea levels rising by taking a cold shower every once in a while. Bigger changes need to happen and I’m slowly starting to loose hope that they will, since our world still revolves around money. That’s why at the same time, I can appreciate the book for kind of having the same tone of voice in that human extinction is probably gonna happen anyway. The only question is when.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I found the information in this book very informative and the last chapters on what to do useful reflection. At times I found the content a bit overwhelming and I wish the actions suggested at the end were actively sprinkled into each chapter so you could reflect on what to do as you were hearing the information.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
“My own goal is to inform you, not to scare you, because teaching has taught me to know and respect the difference. I found that fear makes us turn away from an issue, whereas information draws us in.”
Hope Jahren has an uncanny ability to make science accessible. Sure, I knew about climate change, kinda. I definitely believed in it. I trust scientists. I believe scientists. But reading this book has made me truly understand what we are talking about when we talk about climate change. And it’s not pretty.
Ms. Jahren provides a lot of information, statistics, trends, and ultimately, hope in this empathetically and knowledgeably told history of modern day climate change. All of it is how the world has changed in only the last 50 years which is STAGGERING.
But what I love most about Ms. Jahren is she presents this information with absolutely no judgement. She’s not preaching. She’s not admonishing. She is not throwing her hands up in exasperation. She’s just telling it like it is and letting you absorb the information at face value.
I learned a lot reading this concise book and I’m going to be thinking critically about how I can affect positive change on our world by simply changing my own. We all have the power if only we would wield it.
Hope Jahren has an uncanny ability to make science accessible. Sure, I knew about climate change, kinda. I definitely believed in it. I trust scientists. I believe scientists. But reading this book has made me truly understand what we are talking about when we talk about climate change. And it’s not pretty.
Ms. Jahren provides a lot of information, statistics, trends, and ultimately, hope in this empathetically and knowledgeably told history of modern day climate change. All of it is how the world has changed in only the last 50 years which is STAGGERING.
But what I love most about Ms. Jahren is she presents this information with absolutely no judgement. She’s not preaching. She’s not admonishing. She is not throwing her hands up in exasperation. She’s just telling it like it is and letting you absorb the information at face value.
I learned a lot reading this concise book and I’m going to be thinking critically about how I can affect positive change on our world by simply changing my own. We all have the power if only we would wield it.
challenging
hopeful
reflective
A thoroughly-researched and well-written examination and analysis of our climate change dilemma.
As stellar as her debut, Lab Girl. A must read.
As someone in the process of buying a car, I particularly enjoyed this quote:
"If cars were not useful, they would be regarded as a great social ill. More people die from road traffic injuries each year the world over, than from murder and suicide combined. We make formal and good faith efforts to condemn, eradicate, or at least minimize murder and suicide but we vigorously duplicate and distribute the automobiles that prone to spontaneously slaughtering us while we operate them."
As someone in the process of buying a car, I particularly enjoyed this quote:
"If cars were not useful, they would be regarded as a great social ill. More people die from road traffic injuries each year the world over, than from murder and suicide combined. We make formal and good faith efforts to condemn, eradicate, or at least minimize murder and suicide but we vigorously duplicate and distribute the automobiles that prone to spontaneously slaughtering us while we operate them."
Prof. Hope Jahren teaches her class on Climate Change. There were only a few things I didn't already know to some extent, but the details and examples she includes are well researched and powerful.
I did have to listen to the book on 1.2x speed, and I might have slept through a chapter, but that's pretty normal for a college course, right? :D
I did have to listen to the book on 1.2x speed, and I might have slept through a chapter, but that's pretty normal for a college course, right? :D