Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World [B1543]

2021 PB with minor wear. It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it. After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.

In her astonishing book Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives. Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture. But it can be done. It requires, Dr. Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power--we're going to have to seize it for ourselves.

From the many recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is THE book to read about climate change and individual action. She covers the science behind the climate crisis, choices, hope/hopelessness, and so much more. Everyone needs to read this book, at least the TLDR (too long didn't read) section at the end."; "One of the top climate books I always recommend. Gives you an honest overview of our situation while paying attention to both "the facts and the feels"."; "An excellent read. For my friends curious to read climate nonfiction this will be my first recommendation of a book to start your journey on."