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kimswhims's review against another edition
3.0
A short essay and a correspondingly short audiobook of it.
While my view is that manmade climate change is happening right now, this didn't have any new insights for me. His recount of a forest fire in Germany sounded a bit tame in comparison to bushfire storms I've witnessed from my front door. Maybe my Australian perspective makes me feel it's a more worrying concern than the average person around the world.
Good to listen to but was hoping for more scientific insight than this provided.
While my view is that manmade climate change is happening right now, this didn't have any new insights for me. His recount of a forest fire in Germany sounded a bit tame in comparison to bushfire storms I've witnessed from my front door. Maybe my Australian perspective makes me feel it's a more worrying concern than the average person around the world.
Good to listen to but was hoping for more scientific insight than this provided.
vikkom's review against another edition
dark
informative
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fast-paced
3.5
“Keep doing the right thing for the planet, yes, but also keep trying to save what you love specifically - a community, an institution, a wild place, a species that’s in trouble - and take heart in your small successes.”
A kinda depressing argument, but I think that accepting that the climate is gonna change for the worse could help to funnel rage at politicians for not doing action to prevent “the unthinkable”, actually thinking about it can mean converting rage-energy into helping-fix-little-things-energy. I get where he’s coming from with the “complacency” that one can fall into (thinking you’re doing enough by voting green, riding a bike, using keep cups etc), and to try to do that but also preserve some of the things we love as well.
A kinda depressing argument, but I think that accepting that the climate is gonna change for the worse could help to funnel rage at politicians for not doing action to prevent “the unthinkable”, actually thinking about it can mean converting rage-energy into helping-fix-little-things-energy. I get where he’s coming from with the “complacency” that one can fall into (thinking you’re doing enough by voting green, riding a bike, using keep cups etc), and to try to do that but also preserve some of the things we love as well.
bookworm_with_a_brew's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
lewis_fishman's review against another edition
4.0
The Anthropocene Extinction, which includes the anthropogenic climate crisis, is the greatest crisis humanity has ever or will ever face. Please educate yourselves. There is no alternative.
liebestrauume's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.0
i read this bc it’s short and i was interested to the topic but turns out i understood nothing 😞
danfoskett's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.0