brimnms 's review for:

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

3.0

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I don’t contest that this book is well written or researched, but my God is it hard to get through. It’s probably because I disagree with (what I took to be) Foer’s takeaway that hope is useless. Hope is one of my biggest coping mechanisms in the fight against climate change, and I agree that we need it to be accompanied by action. But this book was very depressing and made me need to reach out to my therapist. Again, I don’t believe that what he’s saying is wrong or incorrect, but it is so difficult to stomach. Maybe that’s the point.