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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate | Michael Grunwald

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Low pick. A ton of information/explanation, and I feel I have a better handle on a really tangled subject. There are lots of people to keep straight, and lots of no-real-solutions. BUT - I don‘t have any idea where I should go from here, as an individual. Should I be calling my representatives? Making personal changes? Supporting businesses? This reads more as a bio of Tim Searchinger than anything else. Frustrating and kind of disappointing, tbh.

ravenlee I really wish the last chapter and epilogue had been more of a how-to, let‘s do this together feel. Grunwald cautions against Debbie Downerism, but the big takeaway here is that we should and could be doing so much, but we aren‘t, and it‘s because our political/economic systems are broken. Which, they are, but what do we do about it? I guess he doesn‘t know either. 1w

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mandarchy

To Change a Planet | Christina Soontornvat

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"One molecule of carbon dioxide. Small quiet insignificant."
A book about how one person can make a difference and climate change. I think we'll read this before or next day of service.

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ravenlee

We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate | Michael Grunwald

TIL — Brandolini‘s Law, or the bullshit asymmetry principle: The energy required to refute misinformation is an order of magnitude larger than the energy required to produce it.

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LitsyEvents

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh

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My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.
Amitav Ghosh looks at the impact of climate change in his 2016 non-fiction book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. He focuses on the influence of culture, history, and politics on environmental issues and how these relate to colonialism.
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AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 2w

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AllDebooks

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh

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My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.

Amitav Ghosh looks at the impact of climate change in his 2016 non-fiction book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. He focuses on the influence of culture, history, and politics on environmental issues and how these relate to colonialism.

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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AllDebooks I'm also behind on previous months' discussion threads. I'll post these soon. 2w

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ravenlee

We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate | Michael Grunwald

Starting this one tonight!

TheBookHippie How are you doing? How‘s your mom? 2w

ravenlee @TheBookHippie thanks for asking - I‘ve got a sick kiddo who hates taking medicine, and I‘m trying to sort out how it impacts our whole week. My mom is doing pretty well. She had the procedure her doctor wanted her to have in the first place but the tumor board overruled him; then he couldn‘t complete the procedure they wanted instead. But there‘s a waiting period of several months before they can determine if it was effective… 2w

ravenlee …so she‘s waiting on her next PET scan/MRI next month (I think) to find out if it worked. If it didn‘t…well, I think this is the last-ditch effort. It all kind of comes down to the next tests. But she‘s coming to visit next month to see kiddo dance in the Nutcracker, so we‘re focusing on that. 2w

TheBookHippie @ravenlee sending so much love to you. Keeping you close in my heart. 2w

ravenlee @TheBookHippie thank you for thinking of us. It means a lot. 2w

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squirrelbrain

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World | Jordan Thomas

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A fascinating book from the NBA NF list. Jordan was studying for a PhD when he decided to become a ‘hotshot‘ firefighter, chasing wildfires.

The book blends his physical experiences fighting fires with his studies into how indigenous peoples managed the land through fire.

Most interesting (and infuriating) was the mis-information on climate change peddled by large corporations and taken up by (Republican) politicians.

SamAnne I worked in forest conservation. While fire can be catastrophic for communities, when it comes to intact forest mot fires are still pretty natural and beneficial. And the worst thing one can do is going in and “salvage log” a burned area. My mentor used to refer to it as “mugging a burned area victim.” Have seen a lot of burned areas in my travels through the Sierras, Yosemite, Lassen, Sequoia N.P. s and most have seemed natural. 3w

SamAnne And so many woodpeckers!! Stacking this one. 3w

BarbaraBB Great review 3w

squirrelbrain Wow @SamAnne - interesting that you already have experience of forests (and fires). You should definitely read this book, I‘m sure you‘d find it fascinating. 3w

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ravenlee

We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate | Michael Grunwald

I was picking up a library hold so I decided to check this out again, and found this cookbook that looks interesting. I already have 1.5 library books to read! I need an entire day (weekend…week…) to do nothing but read!

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MegCaldwell

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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I love Charlotte McConaghy‘s books. The climate disaster the human relationships and the subtle romances are always so amazing.

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Eva_B

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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Wow! What a ride this one turned out to be! I‘ve read one of her books before so I was expecting the climate change angle. But not the suspense that had my heart racing at the end! Great storyline, great characters, great everything. A clever way to shine a light on whet the ramifications of climate change could mean for all of us

AmyG Her other books do the same…with climate change etc. Great author. 1mo

Eva_B @AmyG I agree. She is a great author. I will pick up her future books too. 1mo

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