Hardcover, 304 pages
Published Feb. 1, 2022 by St. Martin's Press.
Picked up this book after attending a lecture given by Rawlence who might’ve dropped this title a few times here and there. Anyways, self-promo aside, this book is marvellous in that it is the most human way of understanding climate change without beckoning to uncomputable numbers/complicated graphs/abstruse figures.
5/5
A recommend for anyone on this planet at this moment in time.
A harrowing look at the arctic, where the trees are on the move. Global warming has made millennium long changes in climate take mere decades, disrupting ecosystems, biodiversity, and human cultures. With case studies in different forests, in some places the trees are leaping northward as weeds, in other places they are dying en mass, being drowned by melting permafrost. In all the cases they, and the people who depend on them have stories to tell.
“This is how the world ends: in a myriad of tiny tragedies. Each extinction of species, language, custom is noted not with a howl of protest but with a quiet tear.”
Although this book does have some good information, it's very slow moving. Felt like it was padded with minutiae to add length.
Although this book does have some good information, it's very slow moving. Felt like it was padded with minutiae to add length.
