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tombennett72's review against another edition
2.0
There is one excellent chapter in this book, which is bursting with facts and data that are awful - and compelling.
Unfortunately this is buried in a book that suffers from mind-numbing repetitiveness. Add to that the pomposity of the author and you have a book that is an extremely hard read.
Which is a shame. The message he’s trying to convey is a vital one and I applaud him for trying. But this is a terrible attempt.
The book gets two stars because of that one excellent chapter...
Unfortunately this is buried in a book that suffers from mind-numbing repetitiveness. Add to that the pomposity of the author and you have a book that is an extremely hard read.
Which is a shame. The message he’s trying to convey is a vital one and I applaud him for trying. But this is a terrible attempt.
The book gets two stars because of that one excellent chapter...
zachnachazel's review against another edition
1.0
This book was just insanely confusing. It was like a string of thoughts not pulled together to make a point. Just couldn’t stand it enough to finish the book despite being half way done.
hanin's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
5.0
dgonzo's review against another edition
2.0
2.5. This is an important book and definitely not a fun one to read, however, that’s not why my opinion of it suffered. The arguments made here are again important, confronting in a way that truly does make you think about how your individual actions impacts the collective or at least all of that is true for about 60% of the book if it had stopped there this would’ve been a 4- 5 star read. Instead it devolves into a hypothetical conversation with himself restating the same things over and over again in a way that takes away from the initial well crafted argument, when I finished the book instead of thinking about my impact on the world I was thinking about how awful the last half of the book was and in my opinion that self indulgence hurts the message and purpose of the book.
victoriadiesattheend's review against another edition
4.0
I find it hard to rate non-fiction but this was just good, I highlighted and annotated a bunch. I mean it was just a book about the fate of our planet and climate doom. It was sad and depressing but also inspiring and re-affirming. The whole point of the book was that humans need to eat less animal products and he even highlighted his own hypocrisy and shortcomings, but he managed to make the short book about a lot more than that.
I find I need to remind myself the earth is dying or else I get lazy with my ethics, we tend to not see what we ignore or tend to think it will all go away, that some smart scientist will invent something that will save us all soon enough. Reading this helped and outside of feeling doomed made me feel more inspired.
Love this author’s writing so I really want to read his fiction works soon :)
I find I need to remind myself the earth is dying or else I get lazy with my ethics, we tend to not see what we ignore or tend to think it will all go away, that some smart scientist will invent something that will save us all soon enough. Reading this helped and outside of feeling doomed made me feel more inspired.
Love this author’s writing so I really want to read his fiction works soon :)
xjoanacoelho's review against another edition
4.0
An utterly important reading mainly because it focuses in our inabilty to act despite of being aware of the tragic state of the planet. It trys to explain why is this so while giving proper insights and information that should, by itself, be enough for each of us to change our behaviours.
singsandreads's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
bookishnewfie's review against another edition
3.0
An essential message,but the authors admitted inability to take full responsibility for the very thing he is writing about.. bs. I’m sorry sir but not being fully vegan just because you like the taste of meat and crave it from childhood is bs. If you care enough about the cause it’s a no brainer. I feel like In saying these things he hopes to write a book that will not make people feel attacked or guilty for putting their taste buds over the environment and animal welfare,but for a vegan reading this, it just made me lose respect for you mr writer.
cyntismiles's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
I found this book more philosophically interesting than anything else. I listened to the audiobook so there could be footnotes etc in the book but from my perspective, it wasn't super fact based. The book more asks what we owe each other in the climate crisis and why we aren't currently taking collective action against the climate crisis via our food.
The book kind of assumes that we take it on faith that vegan or vegan-ish diets are more environmentally friendly than eating meat. The books main argument is that if we all (or most of us) eat vegan breakfast and lunch, it would significantly reduce our environmental impact.
Because of this, I think this book is most valuable for people who want to be vegetarian/vegan but are having trouble making the leap. It doesn't provide practical tips (nor do I think that was the books aim) but a lot of food for thought.
Being fresh off of reading Factfulness, I found the book interesting but wished there was a little more data/more guidence in actionable items. In my opinion, switching to full vegan (except for dinners) is not an easy, quick switch and even if I agree with the author or find their discussion interesting, I think it misses a number if reasons that people dont switch to veganism. It was an interesting thinkpiece but ultimatley read like a long opinion piece rather than informative nonfiction.
The book kind of assumes that we take it on faith that vegan or vegan-ish diets are more environmentally friendly than eating meat. The books main argument is that if we all (or most of us) eat vegan breakfast and lunch, it would significantly reduce our environmental impact.
Because of this, I think this book is most valuable for people who want to be vegetarian/vegan but are having trouble making the leap. It doesn't provide practical tips (nor do I think that was the books aim) but a lot of food for thought.
Being fresh off of reading Factfulness, I found the book interesting but wished there was a little more data/more guidence in actionable items. In my opinion, switching to full vegan (except for dinners) is not an easy, quick switch and even if I agree with the author or find their discussion interesting, I think it misses a number if reasons that people dont switch to veganism. It was an interesting thinkpiece but ultimatley read like a long opinion piece rather than informative nonfiction.