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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
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Terrifying, shocking, and oddly reassuring in its bleak honesty. Everyone should read it.
This book felt like a slap in the face.
Of course you hear about all the consequences which are about to hit us within the next decaded, but seeing them all unfold in this book was pretty gut wrenching. It sometimes read like the introduction to a post-apocalyptic novel and it made me very wary for the future.
I have to say though, that at a certain point it gets pretty repetitive and just amounts to a doomsday list that you have to get through. I also didn´t particularly like the fatalism that Wallace-Wells chooses to portray. It will always be worth to fight for every 0.1 degree to mitigate the outcome of climate change as much as possible.
Just communicating to people that whatever they choose to do on a personal level does not matter is basically the same as giving up. Sure the bulk of change needs to come from politics, but in the end it is our consumption that needs to change. Here everyone can do their part by eating less animal products, buying used goods, only exchange electronics if you really have to and so much more.
There is no need to give up because as bleak as it might look, this fight is far form over.
Of course you hear about all the consequences which are about to hit us within the next decaded, but seeing them all unfold in this book was pretty gut wrenching. It sometimes read like the introduction to a post-apocalyptic novel and it made me very wary for the future.
I have to say though, that at a certain point it gets pretty repetitive and just amounts to a doomsday list that you have to get through. I also didn´t particularly like the fatalism that Wallace-Wells chooses to portray. It will always be worth to fight for every 0.1 degree to mitigate the outcome of climate change as much as possible.
Just communicating to people that whatever they choose to do on a personal level does not matter is basically the same as giving up. Sure the bulk of change needs to come from politics, but in the end it is our consumption that needs to change. Here everyone can do their part by eating less animal products, buying used goods, only exchange electronics if you really have to and so much more.
There is no need to give up because as bleak as it might look, this fight is far form over.
First half of this is great, second half less so. Overall an urgent, fresh take on climate change but execution could have been better. The writing style really puzzled me, just so many allegories and long passages about political theory. Like, who is this for? Recommended but Tim Flannery and Elizabeth Kolbert's writing on this is just so much better.
It was quite a difficult and heavy read, especially the first 150 pages where he spends time discussing what the planet will look like of it heats up between 2 and 4 degrees. He talks about activism, the political climate and how the affect the amount of action different counties governments take. How we as people are not quite willing to give up comfort in the fight against climate change. He also poses the interesting question that I dong DJ d very active in Sweden; is climate change a real thing? This being an book from America, where that question is very real apoarantley in more conservative states...
Interesting, but quite a heavy and somewhat saddening book, although there are glimmers of hope.
Interesting, but quite a heavy and somewhat saddening book, although there are glimmers of hope.
challenging
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
An important topic given complexity and breadth by the author. He claimed to be hopeful, saying it doesn't make it so. Saying you are an environmentalist doesn't make it so, either.
informative
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fast-paced
challenging
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A harrowing and comprehensive read, truly. Ideal for anyone looking for tangible information about what various degrees of warming could bring.
Really enjoyed the later chapter on ethics, too.
Really enjoyed the later chapter on ethics, too.