At Home on an Unruly Planet

Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

De: Madeline Ostrander

Narrado por: Madeline Ostrander

2022 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Long-listed

"Madeline Ostrander narrates in tones of warning, anger, and sadness as she ticks off the environmental crises facing the world. She adds something else, too: sentiment."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis

How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?

Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes.

Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. This audiobook is required listening for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

©2022 Madeline Ostrander (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Very pertinent in this el niño summer

This book spoke to me in ways I didn’t expect. About 20 years ago we were coming home from a hiking trip in Canada. We were listening to the Inuit news and they were concerned because the ice was just not right and they weren’t able to hunt as they had in the past. I also graduated from a high school in Ohio where there was an alarming number of leukemias so they moved the school. Needless to say the leukemia rate dropped to normal. What are we doing to the planet? We need to come up with some solutions.

Powerful stories

People fighting for their homes and communities as climate-related hazards undermine everything they've built...Today, not far in the future. Stories of real people, tough choices, and the power of community. Much food for thought here, a lot to mourn, and many seeds of hope. Powerful writing based on a ton of on-the-ground reporting.