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L'Avenir de la planète commence dans notre assiette

Well.... I read this book. I struggled with my thoughts and feelings towards this book and it's message. Just like any any book that is trying to change your views, it does a lot of blaming and tries to scare you. Which to a certain degree I can appreciate, this is a big topic and should be taken seriously. A third of the book is spend teaching you about climate change and what are the big causes for this, another third is spend having an argument with it's self, and then another third talks a lot about the authors dying/dead grandmother. Which at one point he mentions died while he was writing this book. I think there should have been some seperation between the two. He could of wrote a really nice story about his grandmother and her journey escaping the holocaust and then wrote a book about climate change and how to best navigate that topic. I will admit that I have done a lot of thinking since reading this book which is probably the point. I guess I'm not sure my overall thoughts on this book.

Summary: This book makes a lot of points about climate change. Some being the classics, driving cars, flying planes, garabage, etc. But one of the biggest reasons for climate change is factory farming and all the farming that goes into making and growing the food for the animals we eat. The author brings up how making room for the factory farms destroys forests and jungles. Clearing entire ecosystems to make room for the cattle. He also made a really interesting point about how much cattle eat. With how much corn/grains we feed our food animals we could feed all the straving people! That was a very interesting point. The author brings up how close we are to ruining the planet and not being able to fix it. It's a lot of fear mongering. He really tries to scare you into caring. I get it, people don't take climate change seriously. He also makes a lot of ties to his grandmother escape from the holocaust to climate change. I didn't love this....
Main Points:
- Animal agriculture is a major factor in greenhouse gas emissions causing serious climate change.
- Changing our diets can make an impact on factor farming and also our planet
What I Took Away from the Book: This book has made me look at the future a little more seriously and not at the same time. It made me wonder if life as we know it is going to end tomorrow. I also think I am going to make a bigger effort to avoid meats for breakfast and lunch. Only eating meat for dinner or lunch. Mainly only having meat for one meal a day. This won't be a terrible change for me. I spent many years being a vegetarian, only recently adding chicken to my diet.
Overall Thoughts: I appreciate the message of this book and I never thought of factory farming as a problem. I like that it opened my eyes to a problem and I do like that it gave me a solution I could do, a way I could help. But I don't really like this author. This book is mad at me and I don't like it. The whole tone of the book felt like a parent that is yelling at you about how dissapointed they are that you killed the planet. It also was a weird almost love letter to his grandmother. I just didn't love this book and I think that is all.
Score: 2/5

spiritualsidegig's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

janelkohlmyer's review against another edition

3.75

informative medium-paced

nada_elshabrawy's review against another edition

1.0

Literally I got nothing from this book. Big title, important subject, a lot of blablabla.

jennifersbrown's review against another edition

This book is the one that convinced me that the way I eat can make a difference in climate change. The first two parts were incredibly well written and fascinating. Foer relates what we know about climate change with what people knew about the Holocaust in the early years, and while that sounds flip, it works incredibly well. The last section was still interesting, but a little repetitive and self-indulgent, though the final letter to his sons was moving. Definitely a compelling and interesting book that will enlighten about climate change.