We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast - Brossura

Safran Foer, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241405955 ISBN 13: 9780241405956

Casa editrice: Hamish Hamilton, 2019

Riassunto

From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it

Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race to extinction?

We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving up our meat-based diets feels like an impossible ask. But we don't have to go cold turkey. Cutting out animal products for just part of the day is enough to change the world.

The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves - with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. But we have done it before and we can do it again. Collective action is the way to save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat, and don't eat, for breakfast.

With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life and offering us all a much-needed way out.

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Recensione

Read this book. Saving Planet Earth starts right here, right now (Stella McCartney)

We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast is optimistic not because Foer minimises the crisis, but because of his claim that ordinary people have a chance of ameliorating it . . . I have not had meat at lunch since I read the book, and that makes me feel even better than having solar panels. (The Times)

A warning: this is a life-changing book and will alter your relationship to food forever (Observer)

Since I finished the book I have been following his advice. I hope others will too. The future of the planet is in our hands - or rather, it's on our plates (The Times)

Jonathan Safran Foer has laid down an urgent challenge with this book. Thought-provoking, humane and incisive, We Are the Weather confronts our personal entanglement in the climate crisis through the food on our plates. A necessary book about the way we eat and the enormous difference our daily choices can make. (Julian Hoffman)

Safran Foer's new approach, measured and moderate, gives me hope (Observer)

Foer's new book urges the reader gently towards incremental adjustments - the idea being that if enough of us observe them, difference can be made (Monocle)

Foer's message is both moving and painful, depressing and optimistic (Publisher's Weekly)

L'autore

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

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• Editore: Hamish Hamilton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241405955
• ISBN 13: 9780241405956
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288