A review by anteus7
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

3.0

I'm not sure what I thought this book was going to be, but it was not what I got. That said, I did enjoy a lot of things about We Are the Weather. This is a book about becoming vegan as a response to the global climate crisis. Foer makes some good points about how much of an impact animal agriculture has on the environment, and his main point, which he makes over and over is that w need to do more than just admit that there is a problem and move along on our merry ways, but that we have to make real choices that will have real impacts on the issue, and that is hard.

Foer does show his work. He provides statistics and sources (the last fifth of the book seems to be citations) but also marries family stories and 'soul searching' conversations with himself which was an interesting and quirky way to push his agenda.