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Seems like a good time to talk about this book again. This is my neighborhood this morning, and surrounding areas have seen historic flooding. This is just a little from Hurricane Debbie‘s rain bands. Yesterday morning: massive earthquake in Japan. 6 Tornadoes occurred in this area this week, and are happening in NY too. Call it a hoax all you want. A dying planet stops for no one. Remember: project 2025 calls to end all climate change⬇️

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🌎 This is the best but also the most terrifying book I have read on climate change 🌎

I liked this book! At times it just seemed like a million terrifying statistics just being thrown at me. Very dooms-day vibes. The author constantly reminds the reader he isn‘t/wasn‘t an environmentalist, which makes the whole read a little confusing. However, the information is imperative and he outlines a clear future of what will happen in our current trajectory and what could happen if we change.

I don‘t know how this author had a child while writing this book. That‘s how terrifying it is. If you‘re looking for something to scare the pants off of you, this is it. I‘m glad I finished it and thanks to @RamsFan1963 for the recommendation. Now on to something else on this subject.

“If you have made it this far, you are a brave reader...”

I‘m not sure there are enough words to adequately describe how terrifying this is.

I‘m going in!

1. My mother chose my name because it means handsome from an Irish origin. My middle name is named after my uncle.
2. I'm thankful that I was off work for most of this week. I needed a vacation. Too bad its over.
#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

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I don't do horror, so I picked something else that scared me.

1. I don't believe in ghosts or the supernatural/paranormal.
My friend says I'm "psychically blind" to the phenomenon.
2. I'm grateful for the beautiful day, and I'm grateful to discover I can wear a size 38 waist jean, 9 months after being a size 48.
#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

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Stark and quite dire - captures the urgency and inevitability of climate change. It focuses on how each effect, ocean rise, wildfires, etc will have on life as we currently know it, including refugee crises, health impacts, etc... I almost wanted to put it down but do not want to have my head in the sand about what it is happening and the need to have acted decades ago and to act dramatically now.

#AcrossApril @Eggs
#EarthDay

Probably a poor choice of book for these dark times we are in but the content in this book is so catastrophic that it actually took my mind off Coronavirus. This is a very factually dense book but still manages to be very readable. I feel it is a book everyone should read... even if it is just select chapters (which are clearly named for the theme discussed). We are in a mess people. 🌎

Like John in exile, this author‘s extended meditation on the cataclysm of climate change reads like an apocalyptic vision of the future. The haunting beauty of his lyrical description belies the horror of what fossil-fueled growth has already put in motion. Relentlessly bleak, the true takeaway is that we can‘t shop or consume our way to a better world; our only hope is through political action. A must-read for all global citizens. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

That part in Batman Begins where Bruce and Rachel survey the ruins of Wayne Manor. He says he will rebuild it just the way it was, brick by brick. Alfred suggests improving the foundations. Meanwhile, from The Uninhabitable Earth: ‘It took New York City 45 years to build 3 new stops on a single subway line; the threat of catastrophic climate change means we need to entirely rebuild the world‘s infrastructure in considerably less time.‘

‘What that means is that we have not, at all, arrived at a new equilibrium. It is more like we‘ve taken one step out on the plank off a pirate ship....The last few years of climate disasters may look like about as much as the planet can take. In fact, we are only just entering our brave new world, one that collapses below us as soon as we set foot on it.‘

‘Climate change is a “hyper object” — a conceptual fact so large and complex that it can never be properly comprehended. But time is perhaps the most mind-bending feature, the worst outcomes arriving so long from now that we reflexively discount their reality.‘ It‘s a calamity that we confront such a problem at the very moment in history when our attention spans have never been shorter.

Happy Friday, Littens! This week I added a bunch of new words to my manuscript. I'd love to finish this draft by the end of the month 🤞🤞🤞.

I've slowly been reading this book. It's emotionally exhausting & heartbreaking but necessary. I'm learning a lot but struggling to find hope. There is so much work to be done, on such a large scale, & it feels so impossible but it doesn't mean we should just give up. Anyway, this is #requiredreading

Everyone on the planet should stop what they are doing immediately and read this book. The only thing sadder than this book is the selfishness of humans...there are people who laugh at this in mockery.

The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so compete a wiping of fossil record that it functioned as an evolutionary reset. Unless you are a teenager, you probably read in your high school textbooks that these extinctions were the result of asteroids. In fact, all but the one that killed the dinosaurs involved climate change produced by greenhouse gas.

In New England, dead moose calves have been found suckling as many as 90,000 engorged ticks...those that survive are far from robust, many having scratched so incessantly at their own hides to clear it of ticks that they completely eliminated their own hair, leaving behind a spooky gray skin that has earned them the name “ghost moose”

🥺😫

As far back as 1960, the polymath physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that we may be unable to find alien life in our telescopes because advanced civilizations may have literally closed themselves off from the rest of space—encasing whole solar systems in megastructures designed to capture the energy of a central star, a system so efficient that from elsewhere in the universe it would not appear to glow.

WHOAH.

The natural lifespan of a civilization may only be several thousand years long, and the lifespan of an industrial civilization conceivably only several hundred. In a universe that is many billions of years old, with star systems separated as much by time as by space, civilizations might emerge and develop and then burn themselves up simply too fast to ever find one another.

Arctic ice that formed over millions of years will be unleashed as water, literally changing the face of the planet and remodeling shipping routes responsible for the very idea of globalization. And mass migrations will sever communities numbering in the millions—even tens of millions—from their ancestral homelands, which will disappear forever.

One researcher found 225 pieces of plastic in the stomach of a single three-month-old chick, weighing 10 percent of its body mass—the equivalent of an average human carrying about ten to twenty pounds of plastic in a distended belly. Imagine having to take your first flight out to sea with all that in your stomach.

No matter how out-of-control the climate system seems—with its roiling typhoons, unprecedented famines and heat waves, refugee crises and climate conflicts—we are all its authors. And still writing.

I've been pondering what to choose for #Booked2020 #LiveandLearn, and seem to have settled on a book about climate change. I plan on going in-depth into this topic next year. The Climate Reality Project has an excellent list on their blog, I plan on reading all 5 of these next year!

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/book-club-five-must-read-books-about-...

Also works for the Climate Change prompt for #nonfiction2020!
#NFNov

Thanks to @Emilymdxn for recommending this one. Wallace-Wells makes a perfect case for why it's not enough to believe in climate change, vote appropriately, and make individual green choices. He writes eloquently about why we need unprecedented global action to reduce carbon emissions, even if it won't prevent much of what is in store in a 'best case' scenario. Not easy to hear what's coming, but crucial that we all develop a sense of urgency.

The most important book I‘ve read this year; likely one of the most important books of my lifetime. Written with a righteous clarity that is uncompromising in both its outrage and its ultimate insistence on hope, Wallace-Wells sets fire to the comforting neoliberal fantasies of salvation through markets and technology that serve only to keep us from acknowledging our role in our own annihilation—and our agency over that fate. Essential reading.

Realized I was reading too many depressing books so I went to the book store to pick up some lighter reading. Husband handed me this book. Sigh

This a stop everything, must read right now kind of book. It‘s terrifying, yes, but the alternative is sticking your head in the sand.

I would call my self an environmentalist & nature person (who loves a big city & great transit system), so this stance intially surprised me a bit, but then got me even more interesting in reading this because for people to realize the importance of taking climate change & the impact of warming seriously it might need to come from this perspective

got myself a snack, & taking a quick break from my fiction reading to get a few more pages of this in 📖
#reversereadathon #readathon

Teaching my kids how to dry laundry on a rack outside on hot days...

Switching to this audiobook for the car ride out to the beach so my husband can unwittingly participate in the readathon too. I read Wallace-Wells‘s article on climate change in NY magazine but this full length version is pure terror. And this chapter is just a bit too on the nose for this weekend‘s heat wave in NY. #24in48

I couldn‘t sleep the other night and started to listen to this book. Definitely not the cure for sleeplessness. Holy crap.

#climatechange #globalwarming #wtfpeople

Important and terrifying book. Extremely readable but scary as the most horror filled story. Everyone e should be required to read this!

This is will be a good read but a hard one.

Absolutely terrifying. The book interlaces multiple effects of climate change with data to indicate the threats based on a 2-8 C degree increase of global temperature. I learned a ton and even more petrified than I was before. Highly recommend and we need to VOTE more than any recycling we do😁.

As a call to action, the author proposes that the 3% climate warming is a best case scenario and presents what the world will look like with a more likely 5 to possibly 8% increase in global temperatures.

This book has 5-star material, but a 1-star execution. As a self-proclaimed environmentalist, I had such high hopes for this book, but I was disappointed. The information is vitally important and necessary, and is scarier than any horror novel, but I wish it was presented differently. The writing was so dry and repetitive, I hated Wallace-Wells‘ condescending tone, and the information was overly panic-inducing without offering concrete solutions.

Truly a chilling, terrifying look at climate change/global warming. This scared me more than any "horror" novel I have ever read because it's real, it's happening today (despite what politicians say) and we have passed the point of reversing the problem. Our only option is to try to survive as best we can. 5 ????? out of 5. Highly recommended.

Absolutely essential book. I was shocked by how inspiring and empowering this was, yes it‘s giving us bad news, but I feel like I understand the science and politics behind climate change so much more now and this isn‘t written in a depressing way. I think everyone who wants to agitate for climate justice should read this. I‘m very grateful I read this.

Why am I starting a very depressing book on my birthday? Maybe I‘m an idiot, but I always think on birthdays about the kind of person I want to be and what I want growing up to be like. I recently joined Extinction Rebellion and I know that climate change is likely to be the biggest issue for me for the rest of my life. I think becoming w more mature well informed person about it will improve my anxiety in the long run even if it‘s worse now.

Just some light Friday night reading.

Got a little over excited at the library! Probably most looking forward to The Uninhabitable Earth from today‘s #libraryhaul