Under the Sky We Make

How to Be Human in a Warming World

By: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

Narrated by: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

** Los Angeles Times bestseller **

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, bestselling 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.

©2021 Kimberly Nicholas (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

One of mindbodygreen's 11 New Books on Climate Change That Are Sure to Inform & Inspire

One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of March 2021

One of SheReads' 12 Essential Books for Climate Change Activists

One of New York Public Library’s Earth Day Reads to Inform and Inspire Action

"The move from exploitation to regeneration is indeed critical if we are going to have a chance in the global warming fight—and since this decade is critical, this book comes at the right moment!" (Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?)

“Climate change can be overwhelming, but plenty of viable solutions exist for us to get behind.... Under the Sky We Make [is an] engaging new [book] that bring[s] those solutions to life on the page.... [A] total joy to read.... Read [it] with your giftee to learn together, or use [it] to kick off an eco book club with friends." (mindbodygreen)

“As the world faces more and more strange weather brought about by climate change, we'll all be forced to confront its impact on our lives. Thankfully, Kimberly Nicholas' Under the Sky We Make is here to show all of us how we can save the world, just by making meaningful changes in our own lives.” (Bustle)

This is an excellent, important book.

Both climate denialism and climate nihilism are wrong-headed, unworthy responses to the challenges we face. This book is a clear, strong argument against both, and it clarify what we need to do to responsibly accept those challenges.

a book everyone needs to hear

Enough sicence to satisfy your need for numbers, enough story to tug at your heart, enough frankness to make you realize our reality and enough action items to motivate you and make you feel like part of the solution.

A compelling, hopeful message read with wit

The author reads her book in a way that makes you feel like you are catching up with a trusted friend. My 8 yo and I listened to parts together, and it sparked great discussions about the climate and how we got to this catastrophic point, but also what our responsibilities are and what we can do. At the end of the day, the book is hopeful. It inspires action, small and large. Everyone should listen to it, and I found it really great to share the experience with my daughter.

A must read for any lover of our planets.

I highly recommend this book for anyone - change will help heal our planet - begin with baby steps and share share share!

Painful, mandatory, hopeful listening

Should be required listening for everyone ages 8 to 88, but especially those of us in the narrow but most damaging percentage of the population guilty of the worst climate consumption.

Difficult & Necessary Truth

It was hard to remain positive throughout the book itself but Kim pulls through in the end. More than anything, this should be a mandatory read for EVERYONE.

Clarion call to action and clear priorities for action

Dr Kimberly Nichols is a climate scientist who sees in the data the urgency of transformative action. She lays of clear priorities for high emitters (those of us who fly and lead middle to upper class lifestyles). She also weaves in her own feelings and perspectives so the book does not feel preachy, but an honest explanation of what we can do as individuals, as citizens, at work and in our communities. Please read/listen to this book! I’m glad I did.

Incredible

This book was powerful and positive. It was informative and inspiring to help me understand my environmental impact and how I can improve.

Join Team Climate

This is one of the most timely and impactful books I've ever read. It is personal, direct, funny, heartfelt, full of facts, and actions that you can take. Because of this book, I've organized a book club at my work to start talking about how we can be better climate citizens. Dr. Nicholas also does an amazing job narrating.

Compelling, Convicting, and Credible

Written in a conversational style, this author/scientist, makes an accesible,, engaging, and factually indisputable case for saving the only planet we have from further warming by doing what we already know how to do. I am recommending this book to family and friends and looking forward to making lifestyle changes with them for the sake of a viable future for those yet to inhabit this amazing, ancient Earth.