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Elizabeth Kolbert, Mike Berners-Lee, Naomi Oreskes, Erica Chenoweth, Katharine Hayhoe, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Jason Hickel, David Wallace-Wells, Elin Anna Labba, Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick, Peter Brannen, Beth Shapiro, Michael Oppenheimer, Thomas Piketty, Johan Rockström, Zeke Hausfather, Bjørn H. Samset, Paulo Ceppi, Jennifer A. Francis, Friederike Otto, Kate Marvel, Ricarda Winkelmann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Karin Kvale, Joëlle Gergis, Carlos A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, Nathália Nascimento, Beverly E. Law, Adriana De Palma, Andy Purvis, Keith W Larson, Jennifer Soong, Örjan Gustafsson, Tamsin Edwards, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Drew Shindell, Felipe J Colón-González, John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah F McGough, Mauricio Santillana, Samuel S. Myers, Saleemul Huq, Jacqui Patterson, Abrahm Lustgarten, Michael A. Taylor, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Sônia Guajajara, Solomon Hsiang, Taikan Oki, Marshall Burke, Eugene Linden, Kevin L. Anderson, Alexandra Urisman, Glen Peters, Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Niclas Hällström, Sunita Narain, Jennie C. Stephens, Isak Stoddard, Rob Jackson, Alexander Popp, Michael A Clark, Sonja Vermeulen, John Barrett, Alice Garvey, Ketan Joshi, Alice Larkin, Jillian Anable, Christian Brand, Annie Lowrey, Silpa Kaza, Nina Schrank, Stuart Capstick, Lorraine E. Whitmarsh, Per Espen Stoknes, Gidon Eshel, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Seth Klein, Nicole Becker, Disha Ravi, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Laura Verónica Muñoz, Ina Maria Shikongo, Ayisha Siddiqa, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Wanjira Mathai, Lucas Chanel, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Greta Thunberg, Kate Raworth, Bill McKibben, Dave Goulson: The Climate Book (Hardcover, 2023) 5 stars

The Climate Book is a collective non-fiction book by the climate activist Greta Thunberg. The …

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 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/