
The Story of More
How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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Hope Jahren
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Hope Jahren
The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. “Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).
“Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson).
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Critic reviews
“[Hope Jahren] leads us on a journey across time and space, outlining thoughts and beliefs from Mesopotamia to her tiny Minnesota hometown. Along the way she discusses the impact of everything from population growth to Norwegian fishing to nuclear power. She takes this approach in order to present climate change as a result of broader dysfunctions having to do with consumption habits that, she says, don’t even make us happy.... It’s an argument that contrasts with the recent spate of climate books, which opt to pummel readers with facts and guilt. Jahren, who first came to prominence with the best-selling memoir “Lab Girl,” instead writes delicately, like the whispery scrape of a skate tracing a figure on the ice.” —The New York Times Book Review
“If there’s one book all of us should read about the state of the environment, it’s this one.... [Jahren] pulls off the feat of presenting climate change without emotional baggage through accessibility and humor.” —The Washington Independent Review of Books
“Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and—above all—essential.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
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Should be required reading
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Excellent story - & it's ours!
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Excellent!
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Turns everything into Wonderful story
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I loved it!
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Well done, and thank you, Hope Jahren. Great reading, too.
Hard Truths, but not without Hope
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As a marketer it has inspired me to discover new ways to help push the cause forward. How? By working only with companies attempting to create products with renewable resources.
Wake Up Call with Call to Action
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fantastic clarity!
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I find it to be a great choice, infinitely readable, and the most vital subject for our dialogues in and out of the classroom.
College Reads Choice
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I found myself wishing Hope had spent more time researching and discussing solutions and ways forward instead of the bleakness of the situation. The book is not devoid of hope, but that is certainly not the focus. She even acknowledges this towards the end of the book. However she still chose to only spend a chapter or two on possible solutions. I personally didn't find them very inspiring. It felt like it amounted to; turn your AC down and eat less meat. That is, admittedly, not all she talked about but that was kind of my take away. Especially since she kind of said that most, if not all the big picture solutions being discussed are not feasible.
Side note: I really recommend Bill Nye's 'Everything all at once' and 'Unstoppable'. They are great books that don't shy away from the dire situation, but focuses much more on solutions and hope. Many of his suggestions are not currently feasible options, but with dedication and continual advancements in technology, they could change the world! They are far more inspiring books in my humble, but correct, opinion.
All that being said, it really is worth reading. I especially appreciated her thoughts on finding the parts of all this that matters the most to you and commit to changing it. And examining your life and seeing if what you are doing lines up with your morals and goals. I also admire her data collection and presentation. (The failing is on me for having trouble comprehending it all via audio book.)
Thanks for writing this Hope!
Lots of good info
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