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Hope Jahren: The Story of More (Paperback, 2020, Vintage) 4 stars

Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion …

Focus of a well-tuned college intro

4 stars

A quick perspective on climate and consumption, based on an undergraduate class so well tuned to connect and motivate questions about our values and actions. Short chapters on how much more we use in various aspects of life (food, energy, travel), and the inequities and mismatches in global lifestyles, risks, and partial solutions. "Use less and share more". The appendix is on aligning your own values and actions - individual changes, but perhaps the basis for changing institutions too.