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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate
4 reviews
uranaishi's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Sexism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, and War
therecoveringbookworm's review
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Misogyny, and Classism
Minor: Colonisation
oceanxbluess's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
After discovering she’d been cropped out of a group photo of climate activists, in which she was the only person of colour, Vanessa Nakate shares the story of her journey into activism.
Combating society's expectations of how Ugandan women should behave, whilst being careful to confine with strict protesting laws, Nakate takes the plunge into activism raising awareness of the climate emergency & most importantly starting the conversation of climate justice and action in her home country of Uganda.
Throughout the book, Nakate highlights some of the devastating impacts the climate crisis is already having on Uganda, and the rest of the Global South, including droughts, floods & heat waves - all of which have detrimental effects on crop growth, meaning people are left with little or no source of food or income. This also leads to girls being forced out of school and becoming victims of child marriage, to provide their families with money to buy food.
‘A Bigger Picture’ is vital reading. A great resource to educate ourselves on the effects of the climate crisis in Uganda & Africa as a continent, and also how it effects people of colour & marginalised communities - which we rarely get made aware of by the media who focus predominantly on the Global North. In the final chapter, Nakate provides ‘10 ways to stand up for what is right and just’, alongside lists of activists & organisations to follow and support, hashtags to use, and even lists suggestions of slogans to use on placards when protesting.
No matter how tuned in you are with the climate crisis, I think everyone can learn something from reading Vanessa’s inspiring & urgent message.
Combating society's expectations of how Ugandan women should behave, whilst being careful to confine with strict protesting laws, Nakate takes the plunge into activism raising awareness of the climate emergency & most importantly starting the conversation of climate justice and action in her home country of Uganda.
Throughout the book, Nakate highlights some of the devastating impacts the climate crisis is already having on Uganda, and the rest of the Global South, including droughts, floods & heat waves - all of which have detrimental effects on crop growth, meaning people are left with little or no source of food or income. This also leads to girls being forced out of school and becoming victims of child marriage, to provide their families with money to buy food.
‘A Bigger Picture’ is vital reading. A great resource to educate ourselves on the effects of the climate crisis in Uganda & Africa as a continent, and also how it effects people of colour & marginalised communities - which we rarely get made aware of by the media who focus predominantly on the Global North. In the final chapter, Nakate provides ‘10 ways to stand up for what is right and just’, alongside lists of activists & organisations to follow and support, hashtags to use, and even lists suggestions of slogans to use on placards when protesting.
No matter how tuned in you are with the climate crisis, I think everyone can learn something from reading Vanessa’s inspiring & urgent message.
Content Warnings
Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Slavery, Abandonment, Death, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, and War
maple_dove's review
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
5.0
It is a system of extractive and unregulated capitalism that privileges the needs and concerns of wealthy countries, and wealthier populations within those countries, who are wealthier populations within those countries, who are wealthier precisely because the natural resources of the poorer countries, and their inhabitants, have enriched them. This system would rather destroy the planet for the benefit of the few rather than preserve it for the many. It's founded on greed and exploitation rather than the well-being of the human family and even creation as a whole. It's a system where the costs of the unsustainable lifestyle of the few are borne by the many: in financial terms, in respect to their physical and mental welfare, and in their very future. It enables a privileged minority to be free by constraining possibilities for the rest.
This system can never have enough. It always wants more: more money, more from nature, more from other people, It relies on a lack of consideration for the value of a human life and the planet, and depends on spreading the delusion that everyone can climb to the top of the pole if they follow the rules. But they won't, for the system is destroying the pole itself.
The system is maintained in large part by a fantasy of endless economic growth without cost, blinding itself to the extreme inequalities and ecological collapse. (pg. 161)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Classism, and Misogyny
Minor: Death and Sexual violence
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