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We Are the Weather
- Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
- Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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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- Beth
- 17-11-2019
Exceptional
A wonderful and compelling argument for making a very simple change to prevent irreversible climate disaster
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- Anonymous User
- 22-01-2020
Seminal
I am listening to this book over and over again, it’s changed the way I view everything.
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- Georgia
- 13-08-2021
Please read this and then do something about it.
It is essential that we act. Please care enough to at least read the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-2022
Life. Changed.
Binged this read in 2 days, and have been thinking about it ever since. A beautiful poem to current and future inhabitants of earth. I’m going to try force all my friends and family to read this book and hope it has the same profound effect on them, as it did on me. Thank you Jonathan! Don’t stop!
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- deborah
- 26-03-2021
A thought provoking listen.
A good mix of person accounts, history and the current climate crisis with easy ways in which we can reduce our individual carbon footprints.
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