Title: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Author: Kate Marvel
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Description (Audible): A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it’s easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn’t just happening in those models. It’s happening here, to the only good planet in the universe. It’s happening to us. And she has feelings about that.
Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief—but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.
Hopeful, heartbreaking, and surprisingly funny, Human Nature is a vital, wondrous exploration of how it feels to live in a changing world.Description (ChatGPT): Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet by Kate Marvel is a thoughtful, emotionally intelligent exploration of climate change that goes beyond science into the realm of human feeling. Marvel organizes the book around nine emotions—like wonder, anger, and hope—using each as a lens to better understand our relationship with the planet.
What makes this book stand out is its balance: it’s grounded in clear scientific insight, yet deeply personal and reflective. Marvel doesn’t preach or overwhelm; instead, she invites readers to sit with the complexity of climate change without losing sight of possibility.
Concise, humane, and quietly powerful, Human Nature is a refreshing take on a heavy subject—one that leaves you not just informed, but more connected to both the Earth and your own emotional response to it.
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Title: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the FutureAuthors: David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
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My Review: I loved this book and highly recommend it. It's hard to not be cynical these days. Every day it seems like there's something new to worry about. This book follows David Attenborough's life from his early years to present providing an amazing perspective on how humans have changed the planet to the point of potentially causing a "sixth extinction", which incidently could include humans. The book does try to provide ways that humans could prevent our demise which I found to be reassuring. However, considering the book was written prior to the current Trump administration, I'm tending to favor a more cynical view for human survival.
Description (Audible): In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian, David Attenborough shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.See the world. Then make it better.
Description (ChatGPT): This powerful and deeply personal book reads like both a memoir and a warning. Drawing on decades of firsthand observation, Attenborough traces the dramatic decline of Earth’s biodiversity alongside the rise of human impact, making the environmental crisis feel immediate and undeniable. What sets the book apart is its tone: while the middle sections paint a stark picture of climate change, habitat loss, and a possible “sixth mass extinction,” Attenborough never settles into despair. Instead, he offers a clear, science-based vision for restoring the planet—through renewable energy, rewilding, and changes in how we live and consume (SuperSummary)
Concise, accessible, and quietly urgent, A Life on Our Planet is less about guilt and more about responsibility. It leaves readers not just informed, but motivated—reminding us that while the damage is real, so is the possibility of recovery if action is taken now.
