Author: Kate Marvel
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: I think I may be a wee bit masochistic because I enjoy reading books like this that explain how humans are destroying the planet. It's hard to understand how there are still people who do not believe that humans are the primary cause of climate change. I just wish they would read a book like this that explains in simple, clear language and with scientific evidence how, within just the last 100 years, humans have managed to change the planet so much that even if we were to stop now, it will take thousands of years to reverse the damage. I loved this book and am grateful for scientists like Kate Marvel who are studying climate change and hopefully waking people up to the reality of climate change before it's too late.
Kate Marvel interview: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet - July 2025
Kate Marvel speech: Inner Climate 2025
Kate Marvel & Friends - Feeling Climate Change - June 2025
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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