This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate | 
Currently reading This Changes Everything and feeling like my book club hates me. Over 400 pages of doom ahead of me I‘m afraid. Not like it‘s not important, but it‘s what I already know. Why did everyone vote for this?!
But on a sweeter note…it‘s Nova‘s first photo bomb. I‘ll never be mad at a cute dog photo bomb.
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#DogsOfLitsy
Reading proposal to SDG 13, Climate Change, the Goal of the Month.
If you'd like take part in this reading, go ahead choose one book and share your impression about it!
Can do it also in Instagram (@clubdelecturaods) and Telegram.
#goalofthemonth #sdgreadingproposal #readingproposal
This change everything
We are the weather
The ininhabitable earth
The season salter
pickNaomi Klein just kept teaching me so many things and it never got boring or repetitive or annoying. She covered such a huge amount of information and was able to keep it very interesting. This book is IMPORTANT to read. Obviously, global warming is a huge issue that is going to have to be dealt with in one way or another. Klein went through each option we as a society have and why they will/won't work and what is/isn't working. Just amazing.
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
It‘s a conundrum that while the economy is suffering, the environment is thriving in many places due to shelter in place orders. Wondering what will change and what will remain the same. ?
Well, that‘s what most of us do about climate change....
1. This one and every other one about the climate crisis
2. Hmm parks and rec maybe, M*A*S*H maybe, the good place is probably in the top spot tho
3. Today I had a kind of fruit and veg bar which was quite nice
4. Greenwich Meridian Time pride 4 eva. London 😎
5. Blue Remains or Blue Quichotte - I like both!
@howjessreads #friyayintro
First book for graduate school. To those who are unaware, I‘m currently working as an archaeologist but decided it was time for me to go back to school and get my masters in Environmental Science and try to save the world instead of just preserving our past (which is incredibly rewarding in and of itself) but there needs to be a world in which people can appreciate the past first.
pickVery important read! 🌎 “Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it‘s not about carbon—it‘s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.”
Happy earth day!
3 fiction and 3 non fiction favourites of mine engaging the struggle for an optimistic future for our planet. It‘s a terrifying, depressing fight that I fear will define my generation‘s time on earth, but these books show me how much beauty and hope there is in humanity‘s relationship with nature and how much there is still to fight for. Here‘s to us as readers, educators and thoughtful citizens working for a just future
Today I saw the Ice Watch installation at the Tate Modern and was incredibly moved and sad to see them melting. I touched arctic ice with my own hands and wondered how many more generations would get to know that ice existed, even have the chance of touching it. it made me remember reading This Changes Everything and how it made me feel.
pickOne of the best books I‘ve ever read, I recommend this book to everyone concerned about the state of the world today. Beautifully written, explains very complex concepts in a holistic, comprehensive, empathetic way. (I still wish wonderful writers would say LGBTQ instead of gay and lesbian but I can‘t be angry with Naomi klein). I feel outraged and grief stricken yes, but I‘ve learned about how the world can be saved and what we can work towards.
Listening to an amazing audiobook with this view 😍😍😍
Excited to dig in to this book that a friend recommended v highly. Continuing my project of educating myself on politics, economics and the climate.
Related: heartened by the American results I saw when I woke up. So proud of all of you who voted, and the great things you achieved. I might be on another continent but we‘re all in this together 💙💙💙
The best afternoons are spent in coffee shops reading books. Looking forward to starting this #books #coffeeshop #naomiklein
pick#ReadingResolutions Day 15: one of my book clubs here in Singapore - GatheringReaders at NIE (National Institute of Educ). These #BookishFriends are colleagues (professors/lecturers) across different disciplines: Psychology, Early Childhood and Special Education, English Language and Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, Humanities and Social Studies Educ). Too bad, we don‘t get to meet as often now, but it was glorious while it lasted.Review ⬇️
pickA 22-hour audiobook about the social/political movement needed to save the planet's ecosystem via strategies that redistribute the world's wealth to those who've been denied it is a tough sell, and so I've enlisted my mom's cardboard cutout of The Boss to help me. He's sporting the wristband I got at the #noDAPL protest. Mr. Springsteen did not give me permission to use his likeness. Available on #Libby and wherever #audiobooks are sold.
"Living non-extractively does not mean that extraction does not happen. All living things must take from nature in order to survive, but it does mean the end of the extractivist mindset, of taking without caretaking..." #audiobooks #audiobook #audiobooking
On the laying of new pipelines: "...before we can effectively solve this crisis, we have to stop making it worse." ~Seattle-based environmental policy expert KC Golden
Why is it so hard for people to make sure all the pieces make it back inside the box? #AudioPuzzling
I'm an hour into this #audiobook (of 20!) and my immediate feeling is that it's perhaps a little inaccessible for anyone outside the choir, which saddens me, because it really is compelling in a lot of ways.
This one has been on my #TBR for a couple of years. Climate change is real, and so is the money behind denying it!
#changes
#SeptemBowie
pickThe book for the March meeting of Talk Green to Me in Austin is this hefty tome. I have two weeks to finish it. I'm on page 7.
Afraid of one square that will give me BINGO and sick of the other.
pickKlein shows how previous efforts have failed. We need to get moving on consumer and citizen pressure. #marchforscience #resist
pickVery very impressed with this book. I personally engaged more with some parts than others and it was a loooong read for me (partially due to my own slow reading pace atm), but very worth while. Definitely a book to read during the years ahead of us. #trump #climatechange
#Recommendsday
For today's recommendsday, I wanted to share @RebeccaH 's recent article from bookriot with loads of recs for books dealing with climate change. My TBR just grew!! (Photo from Mother Earth News)
http://bookriot.com/2016/11/27/climate-change-reading-list/
Book 3 in #BooksToReadDuringATrumpPresidency Because it's important to understand why many industries and politicians deny climate change... @radishandhare
This book people! Klein manages to connect austerity, refugees, climate change, human rights and so much of what I care for. I want to quote the whole book to you, but will refrain and only highlight some things... (also, am only 24% in so bound to discover much more)
This seems an appropriate 1st read for 2017.
"Or maybe we do look—really look—but then, inevitably, we seem to forget. Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it‘s hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right."
TRUMPED UP READING LIST P1of 4
Yesterday, I asked for some reading suggestions from both sides of the aisle for post-election. Thank you so much for all the recs (and I also combed @BookishFeminist wall and the #overthis hashtag @lemonlime799 ). Along with some other suggestions out there, here's what I have for now. I did cull the list somewhat for my purposes but wanted to share with you. Please forgive the multi-posts.
#TrumpedUpReadingList
our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity‘s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it‘s not the laws of nature.
#booktober #textonlycovers
Haven't read this one yet, but it's waiting on our shelf! (Fiancée bought it after reading The Fifth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert.)
pickTerrifying and uplifting.
The basic thesis here is that the machine that is Capitalism is by nature in direct opposition to the changes that need be made if we are to keep global climate change from making our world uninhabitable.
The good part is learning how many movements are currently underway to stop the extraction of fossil fuels in its tracks and how these same movements bring social and economic justice with them as core principals.
Still working on this tough but necessary read. Hoping for more optimism in the last 100 pages.
It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow. - Thomas Paine.
I hope this book DOES change everything. Klein points out that we have the solutions to slow down global warming. Also, I would like to add, we still have trees (those magic, 'cleaning carbon dioxide from the air' machines). Why have we constructed a world where breaking an international environmental treaty earns little punishment and breaking an international trade agreement doesn't?, and why are we breaking one by helping the other? We're nuts.
I finally made it to the famous Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT and bought this book as well as three others. I made my family drive an hour out of our way to get here....totally worth it! 🤗
pickNaomi Klein's vision of how we can move forward in the face of inevitable climate change is one that makes me hopeful/despair at the same time. If it clarified anything, it's how urgently we need to take action and how reluctant everyone is to do so.
