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alicebme's review
2.0
The first section of this book is a giant compilation of climate studies. It is very difficult to take the various climate models and describe all of their possibilities in a narrative. The result in this case is so many run-on sentences and switching back and forth that the rhythm was awkward. It could have been improved with fewer words and more charts and pictographs or at the very least a section with summaries of each model. I absolutely think this info is real and important. The book is just a gobbledygook mishmash of flowery and scientific writing.
bethaji's review
4.0
I listened to the audiobook of this and while it's a great introduction to how the climate crisis might unfold, giving you hard truths while discouraging climate nihilism, I did find it a little overwhelming at points with statistics. If I reread I will give a fuller review as I didn't read this recently.
edriessen's review
5.0
Yikes. A book about temperature spikes. A story hardly as fun as this little rhyme. But an important one to have read. It offers a clear, to-the-point, overview of climate change research, effects, and future scenarios.
notbrhymes's review against another edition
Honestly just found it pretty annoying to say that because women and POC have only recently gotten basic human rights that it is offensive to try to fight for rights for animals. As a vegan woman, I’m fine with further progress and do not require it to be slowed down just because things have been slow to progress historically.
todd___'s review against another edition
4.0
Interesting and important but extremely depressing read.
srj's review
3.0
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, reading it definitely lit a fire under me that wasn't there before and helped me understand the emergency of the climate situation. However, what I missed was the hope or motivation to fix the problem, or stories of real people who are suffering at the front lines. I felt a bit drowned in numbers.
I did think that the book did a good job of trying to add some context to those numbers by comparing e.g. losses to sizes of civilizations at different points in history.
I can't say I would recommend this book to others in my immediate circle, because personally it spun me out for weeks in feelings of hopelessness and despair. But that's a very personal take!
I did think that the book did a good job of trying to add some context to those numbers by comparing e.g. losses to sizes of civilizations at different points in history.
I can't say I would recommend this book to others in my immediate circle, because personally it spun me out for weeks in feelings of hopelessness and despair. But that's a very personal take!
hewlettelaine's review
5.0
This book is a very important read if you are interested in the looming danger of climate change. Wallace-Wells comes at this from a non-environmental background and so is not biased or loaded with agenda. He uses the overwhelming evidence of science and research that swayed his own thinking to paint a very stark and brutal picture of what might be ahead for the planet and for our grandchildren. His message is clear - the damage is already done and continues to be done. The question before us now is how bad we want it to get. An absolute must-read for everyone IMO