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104 reviews
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS!
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
challenging
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
5.0
I wish every single person would read this.
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World by Zack Beauchamp
informative
fast-paced
5.0
The Shotgun Conservationist: Why Environmentalists Should Love Hunting by Brant MacDuff
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Loved this book!! Highly recommend to folks who are looking to learn more about sustainable eating and conservation - so many great points and new stats are brought up in this. Telling everyone I know whose interested in environmental movements to read this. 10/10 recommend!
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
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.
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.