Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World

Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World

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  • Author:Kimberly Nicholas
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Summary

It's warming。 It's us。 We're sure。 It's bad。 But we can fix it。

After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr。 Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis。 Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in。 But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem。 Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys。

In her astonishing book Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives。 Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture。 But it can be done。 It requires, Dr。 Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power--we're going to have to seize it for ourselves。

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Reviews

Allison Hoffman

I thoroughly enjoyed this very readable book about a complex topic。 Even though it is written by a climate scientist, the whole book proceeds through personal stories and experiences, which kept me scrolling through the pages。 Even in some of the parts where I already knew the science, I enjoyed seeing it told through Nicholas's lens, anecdotes, and experiences。 The first half is intense, as it lays out the problems of carbon and climate change in depressing detail and tied to real places and pe I thoroughly enjoyed this very readable book about a complex topic。 Even though it is written by a climate scientist, the whole book proceeds through personal stories and experiences, which kept me scrolling through the pages。 Even in some of the parts where I already knew the science, I enjoyed seeing it told through Nicholas's lens, anecdotes, and experiences。 The first half is intense, as it lays out the problems of carbon and climate change in depressing detail and tied to real places and people who are suffering or will suffer。 But the second half is equally encouraging and motivating。 One of the most striking facts for me was that if the richest top 10 percent of the global population reduced emissions to the level of the average European, we would reduce global emissions by one-third! I found this book especially timely to read at the end of a year of altered living during a pandemic。 I have just begun to think about how I want to live differently post-pandemic and this book affirms what will be my number one priority: much less air travel, both for quality of life and for quality of planet。 I'm going to suggest it for my book club。 I anticipate animated conversations。 。。。more

Ylva

“I don’t want to have to look today’s young people in the eyes and tell them to their face that, even knowing the stakes and the urgency, we chose, both explicitly and through willful ignorance, to fail them。“ Jag har klimatångest。 (Vem har inte det?)Stänger jag av radion när världshaven kommer på tal? Ja!Har jag slutat titta på naturdokumentärer? Jajamän!Är jag rädd, frustrerad och uppgiven? Absolut!Den här boken är till mig (och oss)。Redan i inledningen slår Nicholas fast att vi är den tyst “I don’t want to have to look today’s young people in the eyes and tell them to their face that, even knowing the stakes and the urgency, we chose, both explicitly and through willful ignorance, to fail them。“ Jag har klimatångest。 (Vem har inte det?)Stänger jag av radion när världshaven kommer på tal? Ja!Har jag slutat titta på naturdokumentärer? Jajamän!Är jag rädd, frustrerad och uppgiven? Absolut!Den här boken är till mig (och oss)。Redan i inledningen slår Nicholas fast att vi är den tysta majoriteten, och om bara vi lyckas mobilisera oss och agera är det vad som behövs för att stoppa den fullständigt förödande utveckling vi driver på jorden。 Det är ingen lätt läsning。 Efter de två första kapitlen mår jag illa, gråter och måste ta en lång paus。 Sen på det igen!Med en varm, engagerad och auktoritär ton tar klimatforskaren Kimberly med oss på en känslomässig resa i tre delar:1) It’s Warming。 It’s Us。2) We’re Sure。 It’s Bad。3) But。 We Can Fix It。Bokens syfte är inte att berätta om klimatförändringarna i framtiden – vi lever redan i dem。 Boken är snarare en guidebok där klimatforskarnas roll beskrivs som "vägledare i sorg”; de håller oss i handen på resan。 När jag lägger ifrån mig boken är jag sorgsen, förbannad men framförallt inspirerad。 “Gather your peeps; set goals with your purpose in mind; the challenge is 90 percent mental; bring your favorite snacks; wear comfortable shoes; don’t give up。“ Om du bara ska läsa en bok i år – läs denna! 。。。more