jamesiemcjamesface reviewed The Climate Book by Margaret Atwood
An Essential Reference Book on Climate that Outlines our Perilous Situation.
5 stars
You can find my full review here: eschewingbarbarism.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/review-the-climate-book/ In summary:
The book’s aim writes Thunberg, is to “use my platform to create a book based on the current best available science – a book that covers the climate, ecological and sustainability crisis holistically… My hope is that this book might be some kind of go-to source”.
As a “go-to source” for the science of climate change, the book achieves its goal quite well. It’s worth buying and reading for this alone.
In terms of covering “the … crisis holistically,” it unfortunately fails.
Understanding something holistically means understanding that everything is interconnected and that, although things can be studied in isolation, they are not isolated in reality. The Climate Book does not achieve its stated aim of being “holistic” because it interprets natural science in isolation from the politics and economics of capitalist society. In other words, it does not consider …
You can find my full review here: eschewingbarbarism.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/review-the-climate-book/ In summary:
The book’s aim writes Thunberg, is to “use my platform to create a book based on the current best available science – a book that covers the climate, ecological and sustainability crisis holistically… My hope is that this book might be some kind of go-to source”.
As a “go-to source” for the science of climate change, the book achieves its goal quite well. It’s worth buying and reading for this alone.
In terms of covering “the … crisis holistically,” it unfortunately fails.
Understanding something holistically means understanding that everything is interconnected and that, although things can be studied in isolation, they are not isolated in reality. The Climate Book does not achieve its stated aim of being “holistic” because it interprets natural science in isolation from the politics and economics of capitalist society. In other words, it does not consider things from a class perspective. It is disconnected from the experiences of ordinary people.
For my more detailed Marxist analysis of the book, see here: eschewingbarbarism.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/review-the-climate-book/