Under the Sky We Make

How to Be Human in a Warming World

De: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

Narrado por: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

** 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.

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 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!

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.

Balanced & Factual; Dismal Yet Hopeful

Facts, figures and explanations abound. The author goes out of their way to sound the alarms without being an alarmist. Ample context is provided.

Simple and complex approaches to solutions are given, again with plenty of context for their meanings and impacts.

The Sky is Failing would be the Chicken Little approach. Under the Sky We Make is literally the approach of the author.

Time for all of us to listen...and to step up to do our parts.

Unabridged with extremely pleasant narration I enjoyed at 1.1 speed.

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.

Always good to be reminded of the big offenders

Dr. Nicholas did the best she could with outlining all the various ways we can institute meaningful change. However, as with most of the materials I read on the subject, it’s clear that we can’t be as effective as individuals.

I usually check off most of the boxes with my personal lifestyle, but as she so poignantly stated, “The best thing we can do as individuals is not be individuals.” Looks like it’s ime to start joining groups to push the message along.

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.