A review by bex_knighthunterbooks
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.5

More inspiring and hopeful than much climate crisis non-fiction, this centers the activists themselves, which was a good concept. I appreciated how international the book felt, with stories from all over the world, and I enjoyed learning a little more about the global political machine focussed on climate recovery (my exposure is only to the most high profile COPs and IPCC reports). The perspectives were nicely varied and helped show the human impacts but packaged up in stories about action and success. This is very much personal opinion, and maybe it's just the publication being nearly 5 years old, but I felt it was a little too positive without enough urgency, which is why I probably wouldn't recommend as anyone's first climate crisis non-fic but a nice antidote after you've already consumed something more balanced or doom-y. As someone interested in this topic I feel this is an original take that was easy to read with bitesize chapters that kept my attention enough. However, the writing was a little dry and off-putting in tone - maybe I would have enjoyed it more if more was in the activists own words?