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158 reviews for:
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua
4.11 AVERAGE
158 reviews for:
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua
4.11 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
A more positive outset regarding the climate crisis are presented here than in many other sources. Not that the threat isn’t high or imminent or scary, it is, but the emphasis lies in that you, as an individual and as a society, are the most important factors.
Several essays from several places on earth, though it could have been an even broader scope with concrete examples.
Several essays from several places on earth, though it could have been an even broader scope with concrete examples.
audiobook
i am not informed about climate justice. it is not one of my topics, i have little interest in it. theres a few reasons for it, a big portion is simply because my parents do not believe in climate change. growing up, i learned that climate change is entirely propaganda. people lied about the numbers, they draw causation when there was only correlation, and it's a scheme created to instill fear in the population—in me.
obviously, i no longer have this belief. however, even as i realized (very slowly) that climate change was real and heavily influenced by humans, i still struggled to get into it as a movement. everywhere i looked, it was more doom. there's constant deadlines, "twenty years until the world is uninhabitable!" and "this isn't enough!". it turned me away from the topic. i thought it was better to live in ignorance than with that pain; it's better to acknowledge climate change without putting your foot in. i told myself that my bare minimum knowledge was a good amount. i can't exist with constant doomsday-ing, i'm too mentally ill for it.
then, this book. a counter to doomsday thinking. it is not blind optimism, it does not promise everything will be okay. but it says that the future of horror that climate activists talk about is not inevitable. it is still possible to change and lots of people are working towards that change. it offers stories of how we have changed: what legislation has passed (and what hasn't), what groups have formed, what people have fought for. it does not glaze over what we've lost, and what we're losing. but it offers stories of a possible future, why we should care. it doesn't have to be like this.
it is a call to action, but not through fear and terror. rather, through love, community, and hope.
first read of 2025 and i highly recommend. you don't have to know anything about climate justice, i didn't. but if you need a little hope, this book is for you.
i am not informed about climate justice. it is not one of my topics, i have little interest in it. theres a few reasons for it, a big portion is simply because my parents do not believe in climate change. growing up, i learned that climate change is entirely propaganda. people lied about the numbers, they draw causation when there was only correlation, and it's a scheme created to instill fear in the population—in me.
obviously, i no longer have this belief. however, even as i realized (very slowly) that climate change was real and heavily influenced by humans, i still struggled to get into it as a movement. everywhere i looked, it was more doom. there's constant deadlines, "twenty years until the world is uninhabitable!" and "this isn't enough!". it turned me away from the topic. i thought it was better to live in ignorance than with that pain; it's better to acknowledge climate change without putting your foot in. i told myself that my bare minimum knowledge was a good amount. i can't exist with constant doomsday-ing, i'm too mentally ill for it.
then, this book. a counter to doomsday thinking. it is not blind optimism, it does not promise everything will be okay. but it says that the future of horror that climate activists talk about is not inevitable. it is still possible to change and lots of people are working towards that change. it offers stories of how we have changed: what legislation has passed (and what hasn't), what groups have formed, what people have fought for. it does not glaze over what we've lost, and what we're losing. but it offers stories of a possible future, why we should care. it doesn't have to be like this.
it is a call to action, but not through fear and terror. rather, through love, community, and hope.
first read of 2025 and i highly recommend. you don't have to know anything about climate justice, i didn't. but if you need a little hope, this book is for you.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
As someone who works in this field, sometimes you can struggle to find hope and this book gave me that hope back. We will make the difference. Very informative and really insightful about how we make that difference
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
Con algunos capítulos brillantes y otros algo menos, el libro nos deja algo claro: ya estamos consiguiendo cambios en las políticas climáticas y es momento de seguir presionando.
Con ejemplos de comunidades del sur global, es un bonito libro para la esperanza
Con ejemplos de comunidades del sur global, es un bonito libro para la esperanza
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
A great read to feel inspired to re-connect with literally anything that is meaningful to us. I appreciated the many different interviews with people in different careers and their thoughts and experience on climate change and action.
I didn’t feel like every chapter was 5 stars, but enough were that it wins that rating… such an important read… what I needed now the same way Solnit’s Hope in the Dark was what I needed in 2016
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced