Audiobook
Published Feb. 13, 2023 by Penguin Audio.
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.
In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source …
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.
In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?
We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.
I enjoyed the format, and how it was handled as an audio book. There were different voices with the essays, and Greta would read joining pieces.
I even played it at 1x speed. I hardly ever do that.
I enjoyed the format, and how it was handled as an audio book. There were different voices with the essays, and Greta would read joining pieces.
I even played it at 1x speed. I hardly ever do that.
I was relieved to find that this massive book is a collection of a hundred or more expert voices on climate and not the work of a single author. Greta's voice coming in to bridge between essays, to draw connections, etc, is a really great choice. I really like this as an audio book, but I'd surely have highlighted it heavily in paper or epub
I was relieved to find that this massive book is a collection of a hundred or more expert voices on climate and not the work of a single author. Greta's voice coming in to bridge between essays, to draw connections, etc, is a really great choice. I really like this as an audio book, but I'd surely have highlighted it heavily in paper or epub
Greta Thunberg pull no punches in the compilation of this book, but neither will she allow doom and dismay to drag people into inaction. She has unerringly found excellent communicators with a wide range of expertise and experience, and woven their voices into a coherent and readable whole.
I read this from the library, but I will get a copy to keep at home for reference - this book is well worth your time and the ideas in it will speak for years to come.
Essays be experts in many different aspects of climate change and what we can do about it.
I read it fairly quickly but expect to return to it as a reference.
Much better than I expected. Thunberg is the editor, not the only voice in the book. It’s a lot of experts on each part of the story. It is filled with big truth bombs.
There’s a lot in here that’s terrifying and upsetting. It is also motivating. A goal of the book (and of Greta’s) is to convince people not to look away and it is working on me.
Collection of essays that dive into how we got here, what the current science says, and what can be done to address the climate emergency. Nice work, Greta!
I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most important, it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly …
I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most important, it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about ideas which will never age.
