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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Vanessa Nakate
4.18 AVERAGE
112 reviews for:
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Vanessa Nakate
4.18 AVERAGE
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I finished this non-fiction book in three days. The candid, conversational style of writing, and engaging tone of the author, made it feel like I was sitting with her while she was sharing her experiences, and eventual call to action.
Written by Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, “A Bigger Picture” seeks to decolonize the climate change debate, through the inclusion of African voices. Did you know, that although the The majority of carbon emissions derive from the Global North, it is the Global South that is disproportionately affected and suffers as a result? Yes, we had disastrous floods that swept through parts of west Germany this year, and yes we had terrifying bushfires ravaging parts of Turkey and Greece and summer. But why is it that the world only sits up to to take notice when these things happen in the western hemisphere, when these climate change phenomenons have already been happening before and parts of Africa and South America?
In her book, Nakate recalls when her image was cropped from a photo featuring five prominent, young, female climate change activists at a press conference in Davos. In her words, the Associated Press (AP) “didn’t just erase a photo. [They] erased a continent”. Thought provoking, and insightful, “A Bigger Picture” Not only discusses climate change, but it does so through the glaring lens of racism, and the insidious white washing of ecological activism. A must read.
Thank you to Vanessa Nakate, PanMacmillan and Book Break UK for a copy of this ARC in return for an honest review.
Written by Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, “A Bigger Picture” seeks to decolonize the climate change debate, through the inclusion of African voices. Did you know, that although the The majority of carbon emissions derive from the Global North, it is the Global South that is disproportionately affected and suffers as a result? Yes, we had disastrous floods that swept through parts of west Germany this year, and yes we had terrifying bushfires ravaging parts of Turkey and Greece and summer. But why is it that the world only sits up to to take notice when these things happen in the western hemisphere, when these climate change phenomenons have already been happening before and parts of Africa and South America?
In her book, Nakate recalls when her image was cropped from a photo featuring five prominent, young, female climate change activists at a press conference in Davos. In her words, the Associated Press (AP) “didn’t just erase a photo. [They] erased a continent”. Thought provoking, and insightful, “A Bigger Picture” Not only discusses climate change, but it does so through the glaring lens of racism, and the insidious white washing of ecological activism. A must read.
Thank you to Vanessa Nakate, PanMacmillan and Book Break UK for a copy of this ARC in return for an honest review.
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Going to be recommending this book to everyone to read! This book is so important because it features and highlights some of the voices from the Global South that are most often left out of the conversation on climate change, despite them being on the frontline of climate catastrophe. From Vanessa herself describing the devastating impacts the climate crisis is already having on her native Uganda to the book highlighting the plight of other frontline environmental activists across Africa and the Global South, this book provides an invaluable insight into how the climate crisis is destroying lives and livelihoods right now and the immense acts of courage individuals and communities are taking to fight this. Vanessa herself is an incredibly incredibly inspiring woman and has done an amazing job in making this book very accessible, urgent and pertinent in its message.