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Under the Sky We Make
- How to Be Human in a Warming World
- Narrated by: Kimberly Nicholas PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Publisher's Summary
** Los Angeles Times bestseller **
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, bestselling 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.
What the critics say
One of mindbodygreen's 11 New Books on Climate Change That Are Sure to Inform & Inspire
One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of March 2021
One of SheReads' 12 Essential Books for Climate Change Activists
One of New York Public Library’s Earth Day Reads to Inform and Inspire Action
"The move from exploitation to regeneration is indeed critical if we are going to have a chance in the global warming fight—and since this decade is critical, this book comes at the right moment!" (Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?)
“Climate change can be overwhelming, but plenty of viable solutions exist for us to get behind.... Under the Sky We Make [is an] engaging new [book] that bring[s] those solutions to life on the page.... [A] total joy to read.... Read [it] with your giftee to learn together, or use [it] to kick off an eco book club with friends." (mindbodygreen)
“As the world faces more and more strange weather brought about by climate change, we'll all be forced to confront its impact on our lives. Thankfully, Kimberly Nicholas' Under the Sky We Make is here to show all of us how we can save the world, just by making meaningful changes in our own lives.” (Bustle)
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- A. D. Bulgaria
- 2021-04-11
One-Stop Shop for the Climate Motivation You Need
I listen to practically any reputable book on the climate topic Audible airs lately (yes, even Bill Gates!), and I find all of them add an important piece of the puzzle, a new focus or perspective. Prof. Kimberly Nicholas delivers on all three in "Under the Sky We Make", which also happens to be a truly delightful listen (kudos also to her great narrator's skill!).
Professor Nicholas covers all the bases, now recognized as familiar ground to us seasoned climate afficionados, but packaged succinctly in the "It's Warming. It's Us. It's Bad. We can solve it." well-practiced drill from her lectures. No major surprises there. She meticulously cross-references dozens of other authors and researchers, so her book can serve as a springboard to deeper dives in a diverse pool of stories and useful information, ranging from gloomy forecasts to the latest online carbon footprint tools. Many peer-reviewed studies referenced are very recent (2019-2020), which is quite useful, and a fine curation by an experienced climate scientist at work. I found the additional high level focus on the biodiversity crisis and the regeneration movement very relevant, as both are inextricably linked to the fate of our climate as well.
The real value of the book, however, lies in the first person and emotional lived experiences of said scientist and many of her peers, which gives an unique perspective of the frustrations, joys and transformations these "frontline workers" in the battle for the climate undergo. In this, Nicholas doesn't come across as a clinical and aloof academic, or an apologetic global elitist massaging her lifestyle guilts (she does mention a few). Rather, she reminds me of an engaging fellow traveller in an overnight train compartment, eager to share very personal pains and anecdotes, which might make you tear up, squirm or laugh out loud without warning. She seems to be enjoying this too, as her stories bristle with tongue-in-cheek exclamations and offhand-sounding remarks, which don't let you fall into the somber trudge of Planetary Catastrophe Express.
In summary, I will be recommending "Under the Sky We Make" to anybody who is interested to know what science tells us we should do about the climate crisis (and maybe has time for just one book, no complicated jargon and abbreviations, please), and who doesn't mind a bit of humanity photo-bombing the big picture (as I very much believe it should).
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