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bluestocking

bluestocking@sfba.club

Joined 4 months, 3 weeks ago

28 year-old white queer lady in San Francisco. Knitter, transit geek, and sometime editor and cyclist. Planting peas and potatoes to prefigure an anarchist future. I listen to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks.

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2024 Reading Goal

50% complete! bluestocking has read 15 of 30 books.

David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth (Paperback, 2019, Penguin) 3 stars

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is …

there are better climate books out there

2 stars

I gave this a 2.5 on StoryGraph but I'm rounding down here because it really wasn't very good.

I think I've just read too many climate books the past few years, but this did nothing for me. Don't feel like I learned much about climate change or how to deal with it. If you're thinking about picking this up. The Heat Will Kill You First, The Treeline, A Poison Like No Other (which is technically about plastics but touches on how that relates to climate change), Kings of the Yukon, Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers, or even Islands of Abandonment or Saving Tarboo Creek all do a much better job of discussing climate change and its effects, often with more interesting and concrete science and research to back it all up, and compelling possible solutions.