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3.98 AVERAGE
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while this was an insightful read, I cannot confidently claim it was an enjoyable one. for one, the terrifying and bleak subject matter was hard to stomach, so I was never able to casually read Wells' work; I had to be in a very specific mindset to pick this book up, which hampered my will to read anything else for a while. the book kind of serves as a quicksand trap, where one's passion for reading goes to die for a small period of time. additionally, a lot of the same things are repeated but in a new dry way. wells also went on long tirades about things that were extraordinarily loose in relation to the topic. the book was saturated with completely unnecessary blurbs of things with no relevance to anything. despite this, I absolutely recommend this book. it is incredibly insightful and worldly! there are a slew of solid facts and helpful comparisons. it really achieves the goal of explaining possible scenarios of our lives on earth after a few degrees of warming. 3/5 :)
this book is an anxiety fuck and will prob make u annoyed
This book was dark. It makes you want to stop using electricity and water and go plant all the trees and figure out a way to cool down the planet immediately. If you take it seriously, it will change the way you shop, live, and vote. It is a necessary warning in what could be the last days on this planet as we know it.
3.5 stars! The message in this book is valuable but by the end of the book the author's syntax started to really drag
Very informative but I had to read it in small bursts. Its pretty scary to think about the options that lay ahead of us with earths future climate
informative
reflective
medium-paced
If you hear "climate change" and your primary thoughts are warmer summers and a few feet of sea level rise, this book is an important wake-up call. Since reading this, I've come to dislike this term because its unassuming name shields us from the severity it encompasses, and allows many of us to turn a blind eye.
Over the last century, we've already pumped enough harmful gases into the air to guarantee a devastating change to Earth's climate. The question of climate change isn't "when?". Although most of us reading this book have been comfortably cushioned from its recent effects, climate change is already here, and it's only getting worse. The question is how much worse will we allow it to get?
This author does an excellent job pulling together facts from across the globe, including very thorough references and notes. He paints a sobering picture of how much damage we've already done, and the most likely futures we'll endure if we don't immediately make sweeping changes. We can look forward to steady increases in the number and severity of wildfires, many regions of the planet becoming so intolerably hot that it forces tens of millions of "climate refugees" to roam the globe, food and water shortages everywhere, the very air we breathe becoming a health risk, and that's barely half the book.
I applaud this author's ability to cover so many topics, so tangibly, in so few pages. Although it's a short read, its impact will stick with you. It's a deeply uncomfortable subject, but ignoring a problem doesn't solve it. We all need to wake up to the reality around us before it's too late.
Over the last century, we've already pumped enough harmful gases into the air to guarantee a devastating change to Earth's climate. The question of climate change isn't "when?". Although most of us reading this book have been comfortably cushioned from its recent effects, climate change is already here, and it's only getting worse. The question is how much worse will we allow it to get?
This author does an excellent job pulling together facts from across the globe, including very thorough references and notes. He paints a sobering picture of how much damage we've already done, and the most likely futures we'll endure if we don't immediately make sweeping changes. We can look forward to steady increases in the number and severity of wildfires, many regions of the planet becoming so intolerably hot that it forces tens of millions of "climate refugees" to roam the globe, food and water shortages everywhere, the very air we breathe becoming a health risk, and that's barely half the book.
I applaud this author's ability to cover so many topics, so tangibly, in so few pages. Although it's a short read, its impact will stick with you. It's a deeply uncomfortable subject, but ignoring a problem doesn't solve it. We all need to wake up to the reality around us before it's too late.
My theory holds yet again on reading books which I know aggressively lean one way or the other: cut off 40% of the most partisan statements, the data interpreted incorrectly, and the policy conclusions drawn not from careful analysis but from alarmist pathos, and the 60% that is spared the paring knife remains an unambiguous picture of our current crisis. Nothing is harder to fight than a slow motion disaster, there is no clear villain, political and social will is hard to sustain decades at a time, and the problem hurts those who have caused most of the problem, the wealthiest, the least.
I am not ashamed of the progress humanity has made, largely based on fossil fuels, this has been the only great time in the history of the world for the majority of the population, billions have been raised at the very least out of extreme poverty and there is so much to look forward to. However, while I absolutely do not agree with the socialist tendencies that arise from a noble intention to pull together through collective action to combat this problem, let alone to idolize the totalitarian climate initiatives made by leaders such as Xi Jinping, I do not agree either with the libertarian "leave me alone" at almost any cost philosophy than downplays the need for any sort of collective, for it is an easy step to move from asking the government to largely leave you at peace (which I agree with), to asking everyone to leave you alone (which I must admit I must fight every day), for then are social institutions, charities, churches, clubs eroded, and the paths to collective (non-governmental) actions are eroded as well.
This book is worth the read, because while this should not be the only book you read about the climate, it clearly defines the limits of fear this issue can produce. Lastly, that fear should not be our guiding principle, but fear used properly as a motivating force, clearly identifying which issues should marshall our clearest thinking, widest compassion, and cleverest problem solving, we might need a little more of.
I am not ashamed of the progress humanity has made, largely based on fossil fuels, this has been the only great time in the history of the world for the majority of the population, billions have been raised at the very least out of extreme poverty and there is so much to look forward to. However, while I absolutely do not agree with the socialist tendencies that arise from a noble intention to pull together through collective action to combat this problem, let alone to idolize the totalitarian climate initiatives made by leaders such as Xi Jinping, I do not agree either with the libertarian "leave me alone" at almost any cost philosophy than downplays the need for any sort of collective, for it is an easy step to move from asking the government to largely leave you at peace (which I agree with), to asking everyone to leave you alone (which I must admit I must fight every day), for then are social institutions, charities, churches, clubs eroded, and the paths to collective (non-governmental) actions are eroded as well.
This book is worth the read, because while this should not be the only book you read about the climate, it clearly defines the limits of fear this issue can produce. Lastly, that fear should not be our guiding principle, but fear used properly as a motivating force, clearly identifying which issues should marshall our clearest thinking, widest compassion, and cleverest problem solving, we might need a little more of.
Concise and informative.
An eye opening read. Climate change is more than just global warming and weather, there are so many more results of climate change in this book. Lots to think about.
Horrifically true, and it’s not sugarcoated.
An eye opening read. Climate change is more than just global warming and weather, there are so many more results of climate change in this book. Lots to think about.
Horrifically true, and it’s not sugarcoated.