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steph_84's review
4.0
While the content of this book is (rightfully) alarming, I found the approach comforting in two ways.
Firstly, the author is a climate scientist who writes in an accessible way without dumbing-down the content. She used real data, statistics, names and places to talk about climate change and illustrate the likely impacts in a transparent way that neither exaggerates nor minimises. It’s actually rare in most public discussions of climate change.
Secondly, I loved that this book focuses explicitly on Australia. It made me realise how often we hear about ice melting in Antarctica and Greenland, or smaller island nations vanishing in the Pacific, or water rising in Venice, but not what climate change will look like for Melbourne or Sydney or Alice Springs. The book is just so Aussie (with stories from Dreamtime, the First Fleet through to the Black Saturday fires and Queensland floods), but - unlike the cliches - it’s smart and caring Aussie. That’s the approach we should all be cheering for to prevent the worst horrors of climate change.
Firstly, the author is a climate scientist who writes in an accessible way without dumbing-down the content. She used real data, statistics, names and places to talk about climate change and illustrate the likely impacts in a transparent way that neither exaggerates nor minimises. It’s actually rare in most public discussions of climate change.
Secondly, I loved that this book focuses explicitly on Australia. It made me realise how often we hear about ice melting in Antarctica and Greenland, or smaller island nations vanishing in the Pacific, or water rising in Venice, but not what climate change will look like for Melbourne or Sydney or Alice Springs. The book is just so Aussie (with stories from Dreamtime, the First Fleet through to the Black Saturday fires and Queensland floods), but - unlike the cliches - it’s smart and caring Aussie. That’s the approach we should all be cheering for to prevent the worst horrors of climate change.
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