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We Are the Weather

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

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We Are the Weather

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
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Brought to you by Penguin.

From the best-selling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it.

Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race to extinction?

We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving up our meat-based diets feels like an impossible ask. But we don't have to go cold turkey. Cutting out animal products for just part of the day is enough to change the world.

The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves - with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. But we have done it before and we can do it again. Collective action is the way to save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat, and don't eat, for breakfast.

With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life and offering us all a much-needed way out.

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A beautiful book

I came upon this book by accident. It is beautifully written and passionately read.

I am going to recommend this to all of my friends and family. And I will reduce my consumption of meat and dairy from this moment on.

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beautifully written. thought provoking perspective

I listened in audible. will buy the book to read as well. I think he is a great writer...very honest. very thought provoking and a different perspective on climate change. ...but the book is much more than that. it's a great read.

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Good

Interesting philosophical ideas and thoughts. Sometimes, it feels like the inner monologue of the author. But over all good.

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Wasn't really about food and climate...

Although the book was nice, it was far more about the mindsets and philosophies with which we must view the climate crisis than the impact of flexitarianism on planet (which is why I bought this book). There wasn't much info on that and although the rest of the book was quite good it wasnt about the topic. There were some chapters where the author is talking to his internal monologue and I don't know if it a) didn't work at all b) went on for too long or C) didn't translate in audio form, but either way I did skip a chapter because I couldn't listen to it anymore. Overall decent book with some issues, primerily it not being about what it says it is about.

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He loses me towards the end.

Beautiful book. But I’m confused as to what Foer’s message is? I’m not even sure if it’s dystopian or hopefull? Maybe a bit of both?

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Good book

Enoyed it very much. Well written and left me with greater gratitude for ice, snow and storms here in Iceland.

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Must read

An excellent, eloquent case for practical action to contrast climate change. The prose is at times overlaboured and the rhetoric a bit heavy-handed, but overall it was a compelling read

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A really important read/listen!

A moving an eye opening book, helps to build a picture of why so many of us struggle to find urgency in our global crisis! Listen. Tell your friends and family to listen!

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Brilliant- a hard read but easy to recommend

An existentially complex book told in an engaging way. I'm glad to have read this in audiobook form where it felt even more impactful.

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Enjoyed it

Very good, thoughtful, reflective. Good that the author outlines their personal flaws/ struggles in occasionally eating animal products, it gives a more human element to what is being discussed. Also, solutions are about everyone making adaptions rather than taking on extremes.

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