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Kalani Carlson

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Praise for Venezuelan dictatorship inexcusable

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Reviewed: 01-19-22

As a Native Hawaiian I appreciated the many important perspectives on settler-colonialism. I also really enjoyed the author’s previous book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. However, as I also have Venezuelan family suffering under the dictatorship as well as those forced into exile, the praise for the +20yr Chávez/Maduro regime is absolutely INEXCUSABLE.

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Tedious

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Reviewed: 03-09-21

I had heard lots of great recommendations in climate circles and as a marine scientist and hard sci-fi lover I thought this would be my kind of book...And yet this book tries to do way too much and ends up not doing much of anything well. As a novel it’s boring, as climate science it’s shallow, as climate policy it’s not a particularly helpful vision for dealing with the climate crisis, and it’s attempt to include countless global perspectives ends up weighed down by clichés and stereotypes. As a Native Hawaiian, the chapter from the “Hawaiian’s” perspective was particularly cringeworthy. And despite a full cast, there still ends up being many embarrassingly awful cross-racial accents.

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Essential, educational, empowering

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Reviewed: 09-22-20

The essays in this book are beautifully written and an important reminder of how critical community and diversity are in our ecosystems (whether in “nature” or in human institutions, as well as in their interplay). We need to pay attention to these leaders and do our own part to bring ourselves and our communities back into equilibrium with the natural world we depend on. We must become citizen lobbyists for this crisis!

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Awful narrator, good history

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Reviewed: 05-29-17

The narrator's pronunciation of Hawaiian words is awful and makes me cringe. She clearly didn't bother to do ANY research and doesn't have any familiarity with Hawaii! Just buy the book or brace yourself to weather the narration.

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