A review by jmarquette
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie

informative reflective fast-paced

1.0

I found this book to be incredibly frustrating and wanted to stop reading it almost immediately because I found it’s black and white thinking so juvenile - I decided to see if the “wait for chapter 5” payout was there. Once I got past chapter 5 I was really just hate reading it. This book bizarrely oversimplifies things — if you have read almost anything else about climate change, do not waste your time reading this because there is no new info. If you haven’t read much climate change info before, do not start here. Spend your time reading literally anything else - but if you actually need a starting point: 

• Regenesis by George Monbiot
• Total Garbage by Edward Humes 
• Either of Jonathan Safran Foer’s books 
• Consumed by Aja Barber 
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Total Garbage is probably the one I would recommend the most in place of this book, I actually left that book with hope and ideas on changes that can be made to solve the problem. I left this book incredibly frustrated that the author apparently doesn’t understand the idea of intersectionality. 

Overall —  I would not recommend this book to anyone. Every argument  was basically against some exaggerated claim that they used as proof that all the benefits working toward that end weren’t really that helpful. And somehow the author ended up countering their own arguments  from time to time.  I wish I could remember what ‘recommended reading’ list I found this on so I knew not to trust it moving forward.