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A review by violabaldwin
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
4.0
An important book, I wish it was part of school curriculums. Towards the end it gets a little bit unstructured for my personal taste, especially the "dialogue chapter" was getting a little bit confusing and exhausting to read.
But apart from that, Foer finds, as always in his works, beautiful metaphors and images to stress urgent issues and underlines with thought provoking stories and facts without getting too condescending. Hard to do with a topic like this.
His book "Eating animals" was still for some reason more successful in speaking to me personally (I turned vegetarian), and I'm still trying to figure out why.
Maybe because the effect of not hurting animals on my behalf felt more direct and immediate?
Maybe because the topic of the climate crisis is even one that needs more stressing of the urgency of it, maybe I am even missing the blame to our willing ignorance in this a little bit?
But apart from that, Foer finds, as always in his works, beautiful metaphors and images to stress urgent issues and underlines with thought provoking stories and facts without getting too condescending. Hard to do with a topic like this.
His book "Eating animals" was still for some reason more successful in speaking to me personally (I turned vegetarian), and I'm still trying to figure out why.
Maybe because the effect of not hurting animals on my behalf felt more direct and immediate?
Maybe because the topic of the climate crisis is even one that needs more stressing of the urgency of it, maybe I am even missing the blame to our willing ignorance in this a little bit?