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lichen

lichen@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 years, 10 months ago

used to read a lot of books years ago, now my focus is kinda ruined but maybe this will help me a bit

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Jason Hickel: Less Is More (2021, Penguin Random House) 5 stars

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …

really good so far, only thing I dislike a bit is the title, because it may sound too naive... (I don't think that the phrasing 'save the world' makes sense, the world can't be 'saved' at this point.. but degrowth is the only viable strategy for the future, at a planetary system scale). the content of the book is not naive at all, it's well-written and builds on decades of works already done in the same direction, most often by people who are not white people in the Western world

Jason Hickel: Less Is More (2021, Penguin Random House) 5 stars

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …

the introduction does not present new pieces of information, like, I've read papers and reports on the 6th mass extinction, biodiversity loss, climate scenarios, catastrophic forecasts, warnings by hundreds of scientists, etc, it's not new information, but reading it again synthesized in the span of a few pages is gut-wrenching

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Jenny Hval: Girls Against God (2020, Verso Fiction) 4 stars

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, …

No one asks why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, something small in a small person, not something that's about society, or about them, just something that means I'm ruining things for myself, something that's in the way of my potential as an object.

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