A review by book_club_cat
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

5.0

Best book on climate change I’ve seen so far- from permafrost to Dutch wind turbines, this book really does a wonderful job of highlighting a wide range of topics and staying interesting and relevant all the way through. I’m not sure if Kolbert spent enough of the book talking about WHY climate change is negative, but in terms of whether or not it’s happening she does a great job giving a large spectrum of data. It also seemed a bit scattered at times, she is writing from a journalistic perspective and breaks the book up into places and people she visited instead of topics, so concepts like interglacial periods and carbon ppm data wasn’t as coherent as I would have liked. The argument could have been a lot stronger if those sections had been placed together or had a paraphrasing chapter to make the critical nature of the subject stand out more. Overall all I really enjoyed this read, and now I have lots of fun facts to throw out at climate change deniers on facebook! 😉