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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
This was such an inspiring book to read! I learned so much about the climate crisis in other countries, and to know it was written by someone my age is awesome. Her book is super informative and enjoyable to read. I highly recommend it as a resource on climate activism.
Fantastic environmental activism report from Uganda. I appreciated Nakate's personal and national struggles to create/represent/grow an Ugandan climate activism channel in a place where you can be jailed for protesting. She figured out a way to navigate a system to allow her to make a real impact and build solidarity with the people who need climate change plans now.
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I remember the day I first heard Vanessa Nakate’s name: the day she was cropped from a photo next to other young climate activists, and she decided not to let it slide. The backlash from that incident introduced the world to the reality of the many climate activists beyond Europe and the USA. It also brought home the fact that climate action must be intersectional to truly be relevant in our world.
A Bigger Picture is the book the world needs to see a more global picture of climate action. Its weakness lies in the fact that it is largely amorphous: now it is a memoir, now it is motivational; now it is a rallying cry for climate activism, now it is a treatise. While I’m not saying this can’t be done, I am saying that it needed to be restructured to be more impactful. While Nakate is clearly a formidable young woman, there are sections that required more depth and self-awareness.
Young people at the beginning of their activism journey will benefit greatly from A Bigger Picture, and the developed world will benefit from knowing - well, the bigger picture.
Thank you to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
A Bigger Picture is the book the world needs to see a more global picture of climate action. Its weakness lies in the fact that it is largely amorphous: now it is a memoir, now it is motivational; now it is a rallying cry for climate activism, now it is a treatise. While I’m not saying this can’t be done, I am saying that it needed to be restructured to be more impactful. While Nakate is clearly a formidable young woman, there are sections that required more depth and self-awareness.
Young people at the beginning of their activism journey will benefit greatly from A Bigger Picture, and the developed world will benefit from knowing - well, the bigger picture.
Thank you to Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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This next generation of young adults are doing great things!