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Greta Thunberg

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis Paperback – March 17, 2020

by Greta Thunberg (Author), Svante Thunberg (Author), Malena Ernman (Author),

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"A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book." --David Mitchell, The Guardian

When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta’s distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet.

Steered by Greta’s determination to understand the truth and generate change, they began to see the deep connections between their own suffering and the planet’s. Written by a remarkable family and told through the voice of an iconoclastic mother, Our House Is on Fire is the story of how they fought their problems at home by taking global action. And it is the story of how Greta decided to go on strike from school, igniting a worldwide rebellion.

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288 pages
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March 17, 2020
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5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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0143133578
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978-0143133575
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950L
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Alison

Excellent and eye-opening, even for someone who studies this stuff

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2023

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I read this book in a day and couldn't put it down. I doubt that is many people's experience, simply because of the writing style and pacing, but it was a fascinating set of insights into young adulthood for children with learning or behavioral differences, as well as the critical details of the climate crisis that is here, now. Not tomorrow, not "soon", not in the next few years. Now. This book will light a fire under you to start effecting change as best you can.

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Olivia M. Hill

Inspirational, and a Breath of Fresh Air

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021

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As a neurodivergent child, like Greta, I have spent my life worried about other people's business. I can't help myself. I feel and absorb the pain and injustice others around me suffer, and the worst, most crazy-making thing about it is that no one else seems seems care.
Greta Thunberg, on the other hand, seems to be a girl after my own heart. I truly believe that neurodivergent people will save the world, and make it a more equitable place, and Greta is living proof of that. Her family has so beautifully tied the exploitation and abuse of the environment with all other forms of exploitation and abuse, and it is beautiful to see. Greta is the conscience our world needs, and she even changed my mind on a few issues. Because of her, I have significantly reduced the meat in my diet, and the amount I drive my car. Thanks, Greta.

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Ann Wright

How Could a Young Woman With Severe Asperger's Possibly Do What Greta Has Done-Galvanize the World??

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020

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The detailed saga of Greta Thunberg's family raising two children, Greta with Aspergers and Beata with Misophonia (disorder with certain specific sounds) will be very important for the many families around the world that are raising children with similar challenges.
It is only in the last chapters that Greta's mother, a famous opera singer, tells the story of Greta coming out of her Asperger shell and through a simple act of staying out of school for three weeks and sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament, galvanizing students all over the world to take action to save the planet from further climate chaos.
Other books chronicle Greta's remarkable travels all over Europe and the U.S. to the United Nations to call out leaders of the world's countries on their lack of work to stop the erosion of our planet.
This is an excellent book!!!!

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Gregory J Kinsch

Brutal in its honesty

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020

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How can anyone who is a thinking being not be moved by such an honest look at the existential dilemma we are facing? I should say that we are not facing, because in reality the world still sits on its hands, so to speak, instead of changing the systems that are bringing our demise. We have been given a chance and we must grasp it in whatever way we can. This requires a radical change for those that are most comfortable. If we take one step the next step will become apparent. I believe Covid-19 is part of the wake up call. We can choose to participate in healing the earth, or the earth will have to eliminate us. We must choose now!!

6 people found this helpful

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Brian South

Awakening and Inspiring!

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020

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It is difficult not to be moved and profoundly inspired by this must-read book about awareness, climate change, personal health, and the fate of global civilization. This book is down-to-earth and highly informative. Besides, knowing that a significant amount of the book was written by a youth is inspiring to all young people that they too have a voice and stake in the fate of this planet!!

Well done!!!

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Fresh, riveting and real

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020

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Such a great story, well told and well translated. A brave and honest look into a difficult family dynamic, full of sound, fury and disfunction. Presented as a series of sixty plus short scenes, it jumps from climate change to opera to ADHD to breakdowns to bullying to dancing...,always with a deep love of family and a commitment to finding a way for each of these very talented misfits to succeed. Fresh and riveting and real.

9 people found this helpful

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Mark Phillips

Should be required reading in every school and home

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2021

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Powerful. Critically important. Moving. Beautifully written. One family, not just Greta, and a very special one. Read it please. Soon.

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Anne

Everyone should read this book!

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2020

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This is a story how Great Thunberg's environmental movement came about. Written by Greta' s mother with the whole family participating, it describes how important environmental awareness is and how anybody can take part in it. The book includes many personal stories about the family's struggles with mental disorders while trying to function on daily basis. Fascinating read!

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Cecilia Marino

False expectation

Reviewed in Mexico on February 1, 2023

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Book is not written by Greta........ it's written by her MOM.......not to create false expectations

Les Revenants

A family and Planet in crisis

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2020

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I found this book quite tough going. Not because of the writing (it’s written in mainly the mother, Malena’s, voice) but because of the struggles they have undergone as a family. There is a sub title: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, there is a reason for family being first in that order.
It is a sad indictment of modern western society when we fail to cater for the vulnerable to such an extent that they (Greta) is reduced to anorexia and selective mutism. The tale relayed is just awful, where the callousness and bullying is not limited to pupils but also by staff. She is lucky that she has parents who have found the time to battle for their children. It highlights the issue of late diagnosis of autism in girls and young women and the lifelong problems it can lead to if help isn’t available. When Greta is finally diagnosed the private school puts profit before service and fails her (and her sister) repeatedly.
Parts of this book made me weep openly.
This book clearly demonstrates that autism can be a condition (rather than a disorder) as it allows Greta a clarity that neurotypicals so obviously lack at times and cut through all the fluff and focus on the key issues: namely the climate crisis that the world is persistently failing to treat as a crisis. It also allows her to bat off national and international politicians ‘abuse’ (hey, she’s been bullied must of her life, you all just stay classy) and highlight their own hypocrisy.
That a such a small girl can have such a significant impact actually gives me some hope. And inspiration.
This should be a national ciriculum text book.

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Peter Herold

As much about parenting as about the climate emergency.

Reviewed in Germany on September 13, 2020

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This book is written mainly by Greta Thunberg’s Mum, Malena Ernman, a famous Swedish opera singer. For the most part it describes her own, Greta’s and Greta’s sister’s Beata’s - and hence (adding in Dad Svante) their family’s - struggles with a range of neurodivergent conditions (ADHD, OCD, autism, disordered eating, ...). These are presented as poorly understood and accommodated by our competitive society which favours self-confident extroverts; those affected can also excel in specific activities (Malena: singing, Beata: dancing). Greta herself overcomes her difficulties through her focus on the environment, which led to her #schoolstrikeforclimate for 3 weeks in late summer 2018; this then became #fridaysforfuture. What really surprised me was how shy and withdrawn Greta was for the 3-4 years before this - her activism is literally her salvation - but this doesn’t at all mean that her conclusions on the imperative to reduce CO2 emissions are those of a ”whack job” (as Trump would describe her). On the contrary: she just sees things from the point of view of a 15 year old child when she decides to strike from school and can articulate the issues better than the adults. So a book as much about parenting as about the climate emergency.

slo007

Writing is very quirky but really good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2021

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If are neutral or positive about Greta, this book is a great insight about her family and her roots. Her parents are heroes to raise those kids with all the issues they encountered. I feel extremely lucky with mine (so far).
If you are negative about Greta and climate change, etc. this book won't sway you in any way as it's really down to how her family came together to raise the kids from the beginning, the health issues, etc. The school strike and all that resulting fame came much later and seems to have just been added to the story as an after-thought. Which, perhaps, is great because the book doesn't appear swayed by the celebrity stuff.
The writing is very quirky - perhaps the way it was translated from Swedish - which I found refreshing but a bit hard to follow occasionally. However, I wouldn't change a thing.

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Ingo Karkat

Deeply personal and inspring back story of how Greta overcame her struggles to become the

Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2020

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The book tells the background of the family's climate advocacy (from the mother's point of view) in 108 short and very readable scenes, starting with the parents' careers, the children's psychological disorders (selective mutism, eating few things and very little), and how that affects school life and the whole family.

It then establishes a link to modern society and its (similar) woes, a critique of unfettered consumerism especially in the rich Western world, and how politicians and mass media are ignoring science's pleas. This middle part summarizes the main points of the climate movement (debunking common myths like that technology will save us without affecting individual lifes much) and argues that radical system change is necessary to stop it.

The final third of the book returns to the family and how Greta overcomes her struggles by getting involved and becoming accepted in the ecological community (supported by her family, also through actions such as not flying any longer), culminating in the story of her (now famous) school strike for climate, starting on 20 August 2018.

The book adds a rich, deeply personal back story to the media reporting, repeats all the arguments, and gives hope and encouragement to join the movement.

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