Under the Sky We Make
How to Be Human in a Warming World
(Sprache: Englisch)
It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it.
After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong...
After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong...
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It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it.After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.
In her astonishing book Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives. Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture. But it can be done. It requires, Dr. Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power--we're going to have to seize it for ourselves.
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Chapter 1Carbon Is Forever
Understanding the Urgency of the Task Ahead
My mother's mother's mother, Clara, fled what is now Ukraine in 1904, when she was twenty-two. She had sewn her filigreed platinum engagement ring into her jacket to avoid detection as a deserter. If the authorities caught you leaving with your husband, they knew you were escaping for good. Her immigration record from Ellis Island lists her port of departure as Bremen. She and her husband, my great-grandfather Mark, lived in a damp tenement near Coney Island before they eventually settled in Denver, where they ran a women's clothing shop and raised my grandmother Lillian and her brother.
I've seen only one photograph of Mark, wearing a fedora, and Clara, with dark wavy hair. It was taken on a suburban Denver street with my mother, a serious five-year-old, and her sister Judy, already a great beauty at nine: old-world grandparents who loved borscht, posing with their wholly American grandchildren who thought the smell of beets and cabbage cooking was just awful. Clara made her life in a new country in her twenties, as I did in my thirties when I crossed the ocean to live in Sweden.
I never met Clara, but she touches my daily life in two ways. First, her diamond sparkles on my left ring finger. Second, carbon from the coal that powered her escape, across first a continent and then an ocean, is still warming the atmosphere I share today with nearly 8 billion people. Because when your individual actions are powered by fossil fuels, some of the carbon from those actions stays in the air for thousands of years. Your story doesn't end with your death; its contrails unfurl in the physical world for millennia.
Clara lived to be eighty-two-a good, long life. Her grandchildren-my mother and her two siblings-are the last generation of my family to have known her. They're now grandparents
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themselves. Once they're gone, living memory of Clara will wane and eventually the stories they shared of her will disappear too. Clara's life, as real and as vivid and important as mine or anyone else's, will fade into the background of the human tapestry. But her carbon will outlast us all.
I don't know the name of Clara's mother's mother's mother. She would have been born in black-soil country sometime around 1800, so I can guess that she was part of a big family, all of whom worked hard on the farm. I like to imagine them playing music around the fire at night. But here's one thing I know for sure: A portion of the carbon sent skyward from the wood they burned to stay warm-and the carbon they released plowing the rich black soil-is still in our air today, and it will be for at least the next three hundred generations.
I don't know what Clara was thinking when she decided to risk the perilous journey to a new land and leave behind everything she knew. I don't know how much thought she gave to her potential descendants and the life they would have as a result of her choice, or how much she was motivated by her own more immediate desires. Nevertheless, she set in motion a chain of events that shaped my life, giving me more choices, more freedoms, more privilege. I'm deeply grateful to her as a good ancestor.
Everyone alive today is skywriting the most important legacy of their lives in atmospheric carbon. Long after our names and faces and deeds have faded from living memory, long after any genetic or creative or physical or digital traces of us are gone, this carbon legacy will define us in the minds and stories of our distant descendants. It will literally define the terms of their lives: where they can live, how they can make a living, what kind of civilization and nature surround them. We will be remembered for our carbon legacy by far more people than we'll ever share a meal with or know by name.
Carbon Is Forever
"A diamond is foreve
I don't know the name of Clara's mother's mother's mother. She would have been born in black-soil country sometime around 1800, so I can guess that she was part of a big family, all of whom worked hard on the farm. I like to imagine them playing music around the fire at night. But here's one thing I know for sure: A portion of the carbon sent skyward from the wood they burned to stay warm-and the carbon they released plowing the rich black soil-is still in our air today, and it will be for at least the next three hundred generations.
I don't know what Clara was thinking when she decided to risk the perilous journey to a new land and leave behind everything she knew. I don't know how much thought she gave to her potential descendants and the life they would have as a result of her choice, or how much she was motivated by her own more immediate desires. Nevertheless, she set in motion a chain of events that shaped my life, giving me more choices, more freedoms, more privilege. I'm deeply grateful to her as a good ancestor.
Everyone alive today is skywriting the most important legacy of their lives in atmospheric carbon. Long after our names and faces and deeds have faded from living memory, long after any genetic or creative or physical or digital traces of us are gone, this carbon legacy will define us in the minds and stories of our distant descendants. It will literally define the terms of their lives: where they can live, how they can make a living, what kind of civilization and nature surround them. We will be remembered for our carbon legacy by far more people than we'll ever share a meal with or know by name.
Carbon Is Forever
"A diamond is foreve
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Autoren-Porträt von Kimberly, PhD Nicholas
Dr. Kimberly Nicholas is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund, Sweden's highest-ranked university. Born and raised on her family's vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Since then, she has published over 50 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals, and her research has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, Buzzfeed and more. She has also been profiled in Elle and The Guardian, and gives appearances at around 50 lectures each year, such as the recent Climate Change Leadership summit.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kimberly, PhD Nicholas
- 2021, 336 Seiten, Masse: 13,7 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593328175
- ISBN-13: 9780593328170
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Advance Praise for Under the Sky We MakeOne of mindbodygreen's 11 New Books on Climate Change That Are Sure To Inform & Inspire
One of Bustle s Most Anticipated Books of March 2021
One of SheRead's 12 Essential Books for Climate Change Activists
One of New York Public Library s Earth Day Reads to Inform and Inspire Action
"The move from exploitation to regeneration is indeed critical if we are going to have a chance in the global warming fight--and since this decade is critical, this book comes at the right moment!" --Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Climate change can be overwhelming, but plenty of viable solutions exist for us to get behind Under the Sky We Make [is an] engaging new [book] that bring[s] those solutions to life on the page [A] total joy to read Read [it] with your giftee to learn together, or use [it] to kick off an eco book club with friends." mindbodygreen
As the world faces more and more strange weather brought about by climate change, we'll all be forced to confront its impact on our lives. Thankfully, Kimberly Nicholas' Under the Sky We Make is here to show all of us how we can save the world, just by making meaningful changes in our own lives. Bustle
Under The Sky We Make encourages us to live our lives sustainably, with the hope that we can reclaim the planet one good choice at a time. SheReads
[A] must-read that combines unassailable facts with personal anecdotes and a plan for action. AFAR
"A crash-course on why climate change is happening and how to fix it, interwoven with beautifully written, witty anecdotes...Under the Sky We Make pushes back politely, but with science against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate...A breezy field guide on how to align your lifestyle with your values." Grist
"This compelling book about climate change really packs a punch, because climate scientist Nicholas
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relentlessly brings things down to the personal level....Libraries wondering if they really need another title on climate change should rest reassured; this is a realistic, accessible, and clarion call for change...Students will enjoy Nicholas's wry observations and appreciate her approachable insights as well as her "key take-aways" from every chapter." --Booklist (starred)
Lund University climate scientist Nicholas delivers a user-friendly survey of the current state of the knowledge on climate change Readers looking to save the world and humanity should take an interest in this harm-reducing program. Kirkus
[Nicholas] makes a hopeful, clear-eyed, and at times hilarious guide to effecting radical change in our society and culture starting with our own lives. New York Public Library
An antidote to climate nihilism. [It] address[es] the tangled roots of the current environmental crisis but also explain[s] the global necessary to move toward a carbon-free future. Outside
In these pages, Dr. Kimberly Nicholas takes us by the hand to explore our most important questions about the climate crisis: What s happening? What next? And most importantly how do I leverage my power to help make things better for everyone, for generations to come? Educational and galvanizing, this book is part memoir, part exposé, part warm conversation with a friend and it is a soul-stirring call to action. --Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air
"A beautiful book wise, painful, transformative about all that we might still save. Reading it forced me to dig deep within myself, to try to find answers to what I cared about most, what I believed. " Jayson Greene, author of Once More We Saw Stars
Lund University climate scientist Nicholas delivers a user-friendly survey of the current state of the knowledge on climate change Readers looking to save the world and humanity should take an interest in this harm-reducing program. Kirkus
[Nicholas] makes a hopeful, clear-eyed, and at times hilarious guide to effecting radical change in our society and culture starting with our own lives. New York Public Library
An antidote to climate nihilism. [It] address[es] the tangled roots of the current environmental crisis but also explain[s] the global necessary to move toward a carbon-free future. Outside
In these pages, Dr. Kimberly Nicholas takes us by the hand to explore our most important questions about the climate crisis: What s happening? What next? And most importantly how do I leverage my power to help make things better for everyone, for generations to come? Educational and galvanizing, this book is part memoir, part exposé, part warm conversation with a friend and it is a soul-stirring call to action. --Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and widow of Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air
"A beautiful book wise, painful, transformative about all that we might still save. Reading it forced me to dig deep within myself, to try to find answers to what I cared about most, what I believed. " Jayson Greene, author of Once More We Saw Stars
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