A review by bookish_spoonie
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick, Henry Finder
3.0
3.5 stars
This was a really interesting book filled with over 20 articles from The New Yorker about climate change and related issues. I have worked for a climate change charity and keep up with news surrounding this area so I was interested to see how much I would find new and interesting.
This is a long book! At 560 pages, I found that the 20+ articles were a few too many and that there was a decent amount of repetition. Infelt some articles could have been left out and that it would have been a better book.
The Fragile Earth covers many different areas relatednto climate change including the science and history of climate change, effects on oceanic creatures, acidification of oceans and coral reefs, melting of ice caps, mass extinctions, carbon neutral power and carbon footprints and meat eating and the horrendous effects of the meat industry. There are a lot of case studies and each article has it's own focus.
I really enjoyed reading about half of the articles and some I found rather monotonous and not needed. I personally didn't learn a great deal but still found the content to be interesting and useful to know.
Some articles were written in a more approachable manner than others which makes a huge difference especially when many readers may not be that knowledgeable about climate change.
I am unsure who the target market is for this book as I don't think those that know nothing about climate change should read this book as there are much better and more succinct books out there. For those that are already knowledgeable, there wasn't a huge amount of new information as all of the articles are written at least a decade ago.
Overall, it was a decent read but too long and I wouldn't recommend this book as there are mich better climate change books to read.
Please note that I was gifted this ebook in exchange for an honest review.
This was a really interesting book filled with over 20 articles from The New Yorker about climate change and related issues. I have worked for a climate change charity and keep up with news surrounding this area so I was interested to see how much I would find new and interesting.
This is a long book! At 560 pages, I found that the 20+ articles were a few too many and that there was a decent amount of repetition. Infelt some articles could have been left out and that it would have been a better book.
The Fragile Earth covers many different areas relatednto climate change including the science and history of climate change, effects on oceanic creatures, acidification of oceans and coral reefs, melting of ice caps, mass extinctions, carbon neutral power and carbon footprints and meat eating and the horrendous effects of the meat industry. There are a lot of case studies and each article has it's own focus.
I really enjoyed reading about half of the articles and some I found rather monotonous and not needed. I personally didn't learn a great deal but still found the content to be interesting and useful to know.
Some articles were written in a more approachable manner than others which makes a huge difference especially when many readers may not be that knowledgeable about climate change.
I am unsure who the target market is for this book as I don't think those that know nothing about climate change should read this book as there are much better and more succinct books out there. For those that are already knowledgeable, there wasn't a huge amount of new information as all of the articles are written at least a decade ago.
Overall, it was a decent read but too long and I wouldn't recommend this book as there are mich better climate change books to read.
Please note that I was gifted this ebook in exchange for an honest review.