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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.


You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.

In
The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts—geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and Indigenous leaders—to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.
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“A remarkable contribution to climate literature—and an urgent must-read.” Los Angeles Review of Books

“Having curated Yale Climate Connections’ monthly bookshelf collection since early 2015, I was acquainted with over 1,000 books and reports that address climate change in some way . . .
The Climate Book is the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and hard-hitting collection I have ever encountered.” —Yale Climate Connections

"The urgency to act now, to kick the addiction to fossil fuels, practically jumps off the page to punch you in the gut. So while not a pleasant read—it’s quite stressful—it’s a book I can’t recommend enough.”
—Science News
 
“Stuffed with charts and graphs and photos . . . the book is sure to educate. . . . Hopefully billions of people read
The Climate Book and enough of them rise up to demand change.” —Associated Press

“Impressively, in
The Climate Book, Thunberg and team—which includes well-known names like Margaret Atwood, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben and Robin Wall Kimmerer—explain and offer action items in 84 compelling, bite-size chapters . . . The cumulative impact on my understanding of the crisis through [the book’s] data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing.” —NPR.org

“Impassioned . . . Thunberg gathers essays from scientists, journalists, and activists, starting with lucid and accessible explanations of the science of global warming and its possible effects . . . A comprehensive and articulate shock to the system.”
Publishers Weekly

“An urgent collection of writing by leaders in the fields of science, engineering, history, philosophy, and activism . . . Brilliant and alarming . . . Vital reading for anyone who cares about the planet.”Kirkus(starred review)

“[A] sweeping compendium of essays contributed by more than 100 academicians, authors, environmentalists, and journalists whose specific professional expertise or profound humanitarian concern amplifies the existing science surrounding this crisis of sustainability and ecology. Yet among this esteemed roster of recognized voices, it is Thunberg’s own eloquence that elevates the collection with introductory essays for each section that convey a sense of urgency that is genuine, grounded, and unimpeachable.” —Booklist (starred review)

About the Author

Greta Thunberg was born in 2003. In August 2018, she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world. She is an activist in Fridays for Future and has spoken at climate rallies across the globe, as well as at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the US Congress, and the United Nations.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press (February 14, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Our wakeup call, and a great complement volume to David Simon's Meatonomics
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Our wakeup call, and a great complement volume to David Simon's Meatonomics
I am only up to page 50 of 436, as I write this. But with some 85 essays written by legitimate climate authorities, and each section punctuated with one of 18 rallying-calls written by Greta, '"telling it like it is," this is a book we need to read slowly, like a new standard edition of the bible.With due respect for the effort required then, and intending to leave no leaf unturned, I checked with Amazon about the page margins. According to the Amazon fellow I spoke to, who was talking to me from South Africa, nobody has yet said anything about them. See the image of an open book attached to this review. What you will see, and throughout the book, is that every even-numbered page has its margins skewed to the right. A pointed statement calling out the reason why our world is in so much trouble?In any event, the left margin is 1 1/2 inches from the left side of the page. The right margin is a little less than 1/4 inch from the seam, so close to the seam that you have to make considerable effort to keep the right edge of the text in view where you can read it. The fellow from South Africa and I, all we could think, is that this was not likely just a bookbinder’s oversight. But seems more to be perhaps a nicely suggestive way to say that this book is meant to ‘put us on edge,’ nevertheless. That we might be provoked to take action! That we must pay greater attention now to what’s really going on as far as the climate is concerned, and in fact to everything else that is connected to it. Also as the book cover graphically suggests, with its red-hot letters perilously close to the right edge, or perhaps just one step further and we’re at ‘no man’s land?’ Where all life on earth could disappear, all burned up, and every species gone extinct?Yet, not to fret. We’ve got this. All we need do is to summon up our best selves, wherever we may have misplaced them, shake ourselves into waking mode, read this most important book cover-to-cover, and make every effort humanly possible to save this planet, and all our lives living on it. Call this God’s will, and this book our newly revised ‘climate bible,’ and we wouldn’t be wrong. As let’s say, maybe this is the way His kingdom is supposed to come. And our world finally owned by everyone.I cannot recommend this book more highly. Share it with everyone you know.I would only add, at this late date (3/30/23) beyond having read The Climate Book about a month ago, and based on my further reading so far up to page 134 in another great book, Meatonomics (2013) by David R. Simon, that Greta could have gone further. I have counted in the index at the end of her book, only eight citations referring to the plant-based diet that several of her contributors and she mention as important, but it would seem only in passing. While in Simon's book, the underlying problem with our climate is clearly, and with his lawyer’s hand, shown to be all about the impact of animal agriculture that has morphed into a monster sickness affecting all aspects of our daily lives and society.Though the USA is the home of the "American dream," as we are seeing, it has fast turned into our "worst nightmare," well on its way to upsetting the whole world with its same sickness, its penchant for animal agriculture gone wild with factory farming (CAFOs) and its shameless, shady politics so far kept out the public’s eye. While all along, the perfect solution, as Simon and many others have effectively proved, is for us all to just stop buying and consuming meat, dairy, cheese, eggs, even fish, all animal products of any kind. The science has been known for decades that plants, plus a Vitamin B-12 supplement and flaxseed meal for your Omega 3s, have all the protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals that we need to live supremely healthy, productive lives. That, as we switch to an exclusively plant-based, organic diet, as I did eight years ago, the rest of the world around us will relax, with more than plenty of nutritious plant-based foods to go around, as everyone quietly wakes up into a brand new day, living life on our earth as it is absolutely meant to be lived.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
Unnervingly fascinating with reports from experts in the know. It definitely created a call to action for me, even if the changes in my habits seem small.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023
I am currently reading this book and it is a heavy read. This book is not solely written by Greta, matter of fact, it’s a compilation of scientists from all backgrounds. Some are focused on oceans, forests, icecaps, insects, air quality, etc. Other reviewers suggest checking with other scientists and they doubt Greta’s “scientific evidence.” However, science is observing the natural world around us. I personally see man’s destruction of the environment. It’s not a matter of being persuaded (or duped). It’s visible in my daily life.
This book is describing the emergency. Yes, it’s scary but we can’t start solving a problem until we see it’s a problem. This book is arguably one of the most important books you will read in your lifetime. It’s urging climate protection so that we can hopefully save our home from destructive forces that threaten our fragile ecosystem.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
I am only up to page 50 of 436, as I write this. But with some 85 essays written by legitimate climate authorities, and each section punctuated with one of 18 rallying-calls written by Greta, '"telling it like it is," this is a book we need to read slowly, like a new standard edition of the bible.

With due respect for the effort required then, and intending to leave no leaf unturned, I checked with Amazon about the page margins. According to the Amazon fellow I spoke to, who was talking to me from South Africa, nobody has yet said anything about them. See the image of an open book attached to this review. What you will see, and throughout the book, is that every even-numbered page has its margins skewed to the right. A pointed statement calling out the reason why our world is in so much trouble?

In any event, the left margin is 1 1/2 inches from the left side of the page. The right margin is a little less than 1/4 inch from the seam, so close to the seam that you have to make considerable effort to keep the right edge of the text in view where you can read it. The fellow from South Africa and I, all we could think, is that this was not likely just a bookbinder’s oversight. But seems more to be perhaps a nicely suggestive way to say that this book is meant to ‘put us on edge,’ nevertheless. That we might be provoked to take action! That we must pay greater attention now to what’s really going on as far as the climate is concerned, and in fact to everything else that is connected to it. Also as the book cover graphically suggests, with its red-hot letters perilously close to the right edge, or perhaps just one step further and we’re at ‘no man’s land?’ Where all life on earth could disappear, all burned up, and every species gone extinct?

Yet, not to fret. We’ve got this. All we need do is to summon up our best selves, wherever we may have misplaced them, shake ourselves into waking mode, read this most important book cover-to-cover, and make every effort humanly possible to save this planet, and all our lives living on it. Call this God’s will, and this book our newly revised ‘climate bible,’ and we wouldn’t be wrong. As let’s say, maybe this is the way His kingdom is supposed to come. And our world finally owned by everyone.

I cannot recommend this book more highly. Share it with everyone you know.

I would only add, at this late date (3/30/23) beyond having read The Climate Book about a month ago, and based on my further reading so far up to page 134 in another great book, Meatonomics (2013) by David R. Simon, that Greta could have gone further. I have counted in the index at the end of her book, only eight citations referring to the plant-based diet that several of her contributors and she mention as important, but it would seem only in passing. While in Simon's book, the underlying problem with our climate is clearly, and with his lawyer’s hand, shown to be all about the impact of animal agriculture that has morphed into a monster sickness affecting all aspects of our daily lives and society.

Though the USA is the home of the "American dream," as we are seeing, it has fast turned into our "worst nightmare," well on its way to upsetting the whole world with its same sickness, its penchant for animal agriculture gone wild with factory farming (CAFOs) and its shameless, shady politics so far kept out the public’s eye. While all along, the perfect solution, as Simon and many others have effectively proved, is for us all to just stop buying and consuming meat, dairy, cheese, eggs, even fish, all animal products of any kind. The science has been known for decades that plants, plus a Vitamin B-12 supplement and flaxseed meal for your Omega 3s, have all the protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals that we need to live supremely healthy, productive lives. That, as we switch to an exclusively plant-based, organic diet, as I did eight years ago, the rest of the world around us will relax, with more than plenty of nutritious plant-based foods to go around, as everyone quietly wakes up into a brand new day, living life on our earth as it is absolutely meant to be lived.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Our wakeup call, and a great complement volume to David Simon's Meatonomics
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
I am only up to page 50 of 436, as I write this. But with some 85 essays written by legitimate climate authorities, and each section punctuated with one of 18 rallying-calls written by Greta, '"telling it like it is," this is a book we need to read slowly, like a new standard edition of the bible.

With due respect for the effort required then, and intending to leave no leaf unturned, I checked with Amazon about the page margins. According to the Amazon fellow I spoke to, who was talking to me from South Africa, nobody has yet said anything about them. See the image of an open book attached to this review. What you will see, and throughout the book, is that every even-numbered page has its margins skewed to the right. A pointed statement calling out the reason why our world is in so much trouble?

In any event, the left margin is 1 1/2 inches from the left side of the page. The right margin is a little less than 1/4 inch from the seam, so close to the seam that you have to make considerable effort to keep the right edge of the text in view where you can read it. The fellow from South Africa and I, all we could think, is that this was not likely just a bookbinder’s oversight. But seems more to be perhaps a nicely suggestive way to say that this book is meant to ‘put us on edge,’ nevertheless. That we might be provoked to take action! That we must pay greater attention now to what’s really going on as far as the climate is concerned, and in fact to everything else that is connected to it. Also as the book cover graphically suggests, with its red-hot letters perilously close to the right edge, or perhaps just one step further and we’re at ‘no man’s land?’ Where all life on earth could disappear, all burned up, and every species gone extinct?

Yet, not to fret. We’ve got this. All we need do is to summon up our best selves, wherever we may have misplaced them, shake ourselves into waking mode, read this most important book cover-to-cover, and make every effort humanly possible to save this planet, and all our lives living on it. Call this God’s will, and this book our newly revised ‘climate bible,’ and we wouldn’t be wrong. As let’s say, maybe this is the way His kingdom is supposed to come. And our world finally owned by everyone.

I cannot recommend this book more highly. Share it with everyone you know.

I would only add, at this late date (3/30/23) beyond having read The Climate Book about a month ago, and based on my further reading so far up to page 134 in another great book, Meatonomics (2013) by David R. Simon, that Greta could have gone further. I have counted in the index at the end of her book, only eight citations referring to the plant-based diet that several of her contributors and she mention as important, but it would seem only in passing. While in Simon's book, the underlying problem with our climate is clearly, and with his lawyer’s hand, shown to be all about the impact of animal agriculture that has morphed into a monster sickness affecting all aspects of our daily lives and society.

Though the USA is the home of the "American dream," as we are seeing, it has fast turned into our "worst nightmare," well on its way to upsetting the whole world with its same sickness, its penchant for animal agriculture gone wild with factory farming (CAFOs) and its shameless, shady politics so far kept out the public’s eye. While all along, the perfect solution, as Simon and many others have effectively proved, is for us all to just stop buying and consuming meat, dairy, cheese, eggs, even fish, all animal products of any kind. The science has been known for decades that plants, plus a Vitamin B-12 supplement and flaxseed meal for your Omega 3s, have all the protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals that we need to live supremely healthy, productive lives. That, as we switch to an exclusively plant-based, organic diet, as I did eight years ago, the rest of the world around us will relax, with more than plenty of nutritious plant-based foods to go around, as everyone quietly wakes up into a brand new day, living life on our earth as it is absolutely meant to be lived.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2023
This isn't a book for snowflakes, and it will challenge your critical thinking skills. What I liked about the book was how well it was written, and it was informative. What I didn't like was it was work. However people try to soften it, Greta Thunberg is a political activist and a very skilled one. In this book, Thunberg takes a broad view of what it takes to slow down climate change, and to my way of thinking, that suggests a hopeful future, so I didn't see the doom and gloom people talk about. Nevertheless, political activists are idealistcally preachy, and their reasoning often looks sketchy and contradictory; that is the substance of politics, and climate change and environmentalism have been political footballs for a long time. Thunberg knows her subject well, and climate change is a complex thing to explain (a balanced system off balance) but Thunberg appears to be a gifted spokesperson, and she wrangles the subject well. After I finished reading this book, there were things I did not agree with, and I am not a Greta Thunberg groupy at all; she is a skilled political activist trying to sell her brand of idealism. I am all in favor of slowing the progress of climate change, but let me be clear, Greta Thunberg is a cat with teeth and claws. Really, I liked this book, and it is certainly worth reading.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2023
What strikes me most about this book is that it is both comprehensive and accessible. It is a fantastic introduction to the entire topic in all its complexity for any age of reader. For anyone who has read about climate change before, but not comprehensively, it will probably fill in some gaps in your understanding. And even if you've read extensively--and yes, even if you are a scientist--it will be a useful read. You might learn something about an aspect of the topic that you didn't know about, or at the very least give you some ideas about how to present the topic to a general audience in an accessible way.

Beyond individual reading, I could see this book being used for a college or high school level class or for a book group. The essays are short and to the point and written by knowledgeable people. They cover a very broad range of topics within the field and are arranged in a smart way that builds understanding essay by essay.
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Garrick D. Pattenden, MD
5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Book I've read on our Climate
Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024
Greta Thunberg's "The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions" in its hardcover edition is a compelling and comprehensive exploration of the climate crisis that grips our planet. With the same fervor and clarity that characterizes her public appearances, Thunberg presents a meticulously researched text that navigates through the dire realities of climate change, while also offering tangible, actionable solutions. This book stands out for its balanced approach, providing in-depth analysis for seasoned environmentalists and accessible guidance for those new to the conversation around climate change.

The hardcover edition divides its focus between presenting the sobering facts of our current environmental state and the hopeful pathways toward sustainability. Thunberg's persuasive writing compels readers to not only understand the immense scale of the challenge but also to recognize their role in the collective action required to address it. The physical book serves as a tangible reminder of the urgency of its content, encouraging readers to reflect, discuss, and act.

"The Climate Book" is more than just a read; it's a call to arms, offering a blueprint for individual and collective action in the face of the climate emergency. It is essential for anyone ready to contribute to the monumental task of saving our planet, making it a vital addition to the library of every concerned citizen.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Book I've read on our Climate
Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024
Greta Thunberg's "The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions" in its hardcover edition is a compelling and comprehensive exploration of the climate crisis that grips our planet. With the same fervor and clarity that characterizes her public appearances, Thunberg presents a meticulously researched text that navigates through the dire realities of climate change, while also offering tangible, actionable solutions. This book stands out for its balanced approach, providing in-depth analysis for seasoned environmentalists and accessible guidance for those new to the conversation around climate change.

The hardcover edition divides its focus between presenting the sobering facts of our current environmental state and the hopeful pathways toward sustainability. Thunberg's persuasive writing compels readers to not only understand the immense scale of the challenge but also to recognize their role in the collective action required to address it. The physical book serves as a tangible reminder of the urgency of its content, encouraging readers to reflect, discuss, and act.

"The Climate Book" is more than just a read; it's a call to arms, offering a blueprint for individual and collective action in the face of the climate emergency. It is essential for anyone ready to contribute to the monumental task of saving our planet, making it a vital addition to the library of every concerned citizen.
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Marcelo Nogueira Leite
5.0 out of 5 stars Too honest appraisal of climate change
Reviewed in Brazil on March 25, 2023
A collection of short texts under Greta Thunberg’s direction. Honest to the point of being discouraging, but a message of hope: there is little time to act.
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Marc B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Important book
Reviewed in the Netherlands on July 2, 2024
The book helped me to feel informed. It brought me out of my comfort zone. It treats the big patterns of planetary decline, but is not without hope. The chapters written by Thunberg are real gems, rhetorical and motivational. An update in 2026 will be needed..?
Gerd Lange
5.0 out of 5 stars Alles bestens, gerne wieder
Reviewed in Germany on May 10, 2024
Alles bestens, gerne wieder
John Barrie
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know about the climate crisis in one place
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2023
I have read a lot about different aspects of the climate crisis but this is the best consolidated overview I have read. It is packed with short, concise contributions from experts from all fields ranging from the understanding the science, where we are today, the consequences of inaction and the available solutions. Not an easy read but a very important one.
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