b00ksforeveryone reviewed Slow Down by Kohei Saito
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4 stars
the first half of the book was kind of mid, especially if you don't need convincing that capitalism is driving climate change. i feel like it really started hitting its stride towards the back half of the book; when i try to write or talk about what i learned, nothing seems revolutionary, and yet it made me reconsider the ways i move through the world. it also reiterated how connected everything is, and how we cannot decouple climate change from anything or any place or anyone else (ie the ongoing genocide in palestine and the exploitation happening in the congo are humanitarian crises, yes, but to ignore the environmental impacts is ridiculous).
the only thing i had trouble with was saito's implication that the covid-19 pandemic is over (spoiler: it is not. we cannot pretend it is over).
the only thing i had trouble with was saito's implication that the covid-19 pandemic is over (spoiler: it is not. we cannot pretend it is over).