A review by elerireads
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Hmm this was alright? I feel like it could be an important book for young people especially to read just to get a perspective of how un-new climate change is, how long the right people have known all they needed to know, and how long they've been doing fuck all about it to make themselves richer. It's a fairly short, gripping and easy read. That said, I was a bit bored most of the time reading it. I'd come to it via having seen a 45 minute Simon Clark YouTube video https://youtu.be/hvGQMZFP9IA based on this book, but discovered that the video basically covered everything in a way that was both more compelling and more concise. So honestly if the blurb of the book appeals to you I'd recommend just watching that video - it's excellent. Probably the bit I enjoyed most about this book was the final concluding passage about the moral dimensions of climate inaction. None of the points were exactly new to me but they were powerfully made.