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A review by mallorywool
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
4.0
I listened to the audiobook (read by Foer himself).
I found this book to be a very human approach to the climate crisis. Perhaps some readers will see Foer as a bumbling man spouting his musings, but I think his writing style accurately relates the paralyzing, terrifying, and confusing human reaction to the problem that is climate change. This book is not so much a "how-to" manual as a hand to hold when the world's problems seem too big to overcome. I did not rate it five stars because - as other reviewers have pointed out - there could be a clearer set of steps to take. (Ironically, Foer spends part of his book berating the "next steps" section following Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." I think Foer's skepticism of the value of these "next steps" is apparent in his own call to action, which is not nearly as ambiguous as it is debilitating.)
I found this book to be a very human approach to the climate crisis. Perhaps some readers will see Foer as a bumbling man spouting his musings, but I think his writing style accurately relates the paralyzing, terrifying, and confusing human reaction to the problem that is climate change. This book is not so much a "how-to" manual as a hand to hold when the world's problems seem too big to overcome. I did not rate it five stars because - as other reviewers have pointed out - there could be a clearer set of steps to take. (Ironically, Foer spends part of his book berating the "next steps" section following Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." I think Foer's skepticism of the value of these "next steps" is apparent in his own call to action, which is not nearly as ambiguous as it is debilitating.)