This was kind of a weird one. I didn't really dig the writing, and I thought a lot of the content was just really obvious stuff with occasional tidbits of extra trivia that I didn't know. The ending is a bit stronger.

I also find the title kinda weird, sort of a poor match for the content within the book.

Ultimately, this is a two-star book getting three from me because it's on the right side of an important issue. Not a great reason to swing a book up a grade, but not the worst either, I'd say. Read if you want, but there's better stuff out there.

Schlossberg is hilarious, smart, and honest about the hidden environmental costs of our everyday decisions, like what it takes for the Earth to fulfill our demands for streamed video, meat, cashmere, climate control, and convenient travel (for ourselves and all those goods and services). The concrete connections she makes are going to be sticky, useful reminders that just because we don’t see pollution or see it reflected in the price, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t there. But I’m going to keep this baby on the shelf as a reference just in case I forget. Funniest reference book I own.

This was a great, succinct, well written, well organized book in which a lot of information is stored and does a really good job presenting you with the numbers and facts while still mostly telling a narrative. Like any good book about environmentalism, it made me want to never buy anything again (which I'm already fairly good at) and cycle everywhere and eat only what imperfect produce drops off at my house (which I keep telling myself I'll subscribe to once I live in a city). It sort of left off the classic hopeful conclusions that tends to finish off these books, but maybe it's time these books don't have a hopeful conclusions and we all come to terms with the terrifying potential of what our futures look like.

Took off a star because of the little ad libs and funny quips, which, while they gave the book a sense of personal voice, sort of detracted from the point of presenting all the facts (like when joking that all of the screens we were watching "turns our brains to mush" while talking about the environmental impact of the internet, I thought that for people who weren't scientifically inclined and for whom this might be their first book on the subject matter, the kinds of people you especially want reading this book, it might be hard to figure out where the facts end and the jokes begin.) I feel like I didn't need the little puns and interludes throughout the book, but they weren't terrible.

Overall, everyone should read this, and start doing something when they can to be part of organizations that are fighting all this stuff rather than just expecting them to win without your help.

This book’s heart was in the right place. I can even appreciate the attempt to reach an audience that might be only just starting to think about these issues and to try not to paralyze them into inaction. But I was not that audience.

4.5/5 This was a really interesting read. I like to think I’m someone who pays attention to the choices I make and how those choices impact the environment, and this read broadened my knowledge further, proving there is all ways more to learn. It opened my eyes to the frustrating ways our Earth is being decimated that aren’t always apparent. It’s quippy and funny which kept me engaged; this is not a dry scientific account of the climate crisis. I’d go ahead and say this should be required reading, for as the author says: If you care about injustice, you must care about climate change.

One of the best books I've read about climate change, environmental pollution and injustice. The author covers a ton of topics touching a lot of important aspects but leaves it to the comprehensive note section (and the reader) to dig deeper.

I absolutely recommend the book to everyone who wants to get a quick and broad overview of the pressing issues of our time. For those who already have a relatively good understanding (I consider me such a person) it is a good reminder with a couple of new learnings how our actions negatively affect people on the other side of the globe. The book manages to highlight the need for awareness and change (especially in politics and economics) but doesn't blame the consumer (although most of us could surely consume a bit more mindful).