We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast - Softcover

Safran Foer, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241984912 ISBN 13: 9780241984918

Publisher: Penguin, 2020

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it

'Your burger isn't something you bought and paid for. It is a symbol of a debt that, one day, must be repaid.'(Chelsea Harvey)

Climate change is the single biggest threat to human survival - and we are dealing with it all wrong.

We take shorter showers to save water - because we don't know that producing one pound of meat requires the equivalent of six months' showers in water waste.

We buy hybrid cars - because we don't know that just one day a week without meat consumption is equivalent to taking every car in America off the road.

The link between meat-eating and the climate crisis isn't talked about - because our leaders think we're not ready to make small personal sacrifices to save our way of life. But these sacrifices need to be made - and they're so much easier than you think. You don't have to go cold turkey. Cutting out meat for just part of the day is enough to change the world.

With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life, and offering us all a much-needed way out.

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Review

Read this book. Saving Planet Earth starts right here, right now (Stella McCartney)

We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast is optimistic not because Foer minimises the crisis, but because of his claim that ordinary people have a chance of ameliorating it . . . I have not had meat at lunch since I read the book, and that makes me feel even better than having solar panels. (The Times)

A warning: this is a life-changing book and will alter your relationship to food forever (Observer)

Since I finished the book I have been following his advice. I hope others will too. The future of the planet is in our hands - or rather, it's on our plates (The Times)

Jonathan Safran Foer has laid down an urgent challenge with this book. Thought-provoking, humane and incisive, We Are the Weather confronts our personal entanglement in the climate crisis through the food on our plates. A necessary book about the way we eat and the enormous difference our daily choices can make. (Julian Hoffman)

Safran Foer's new approach, measured and moderate, gives me hope (Observer)

In a style rarely found in books about global catastrophe, [Foer] interweaves personal stories, bulleted factoids and a delicious serving of metaphor. The effect is dazzling. (The Washington Post)

Eye-opening . . . In this follow-up to his influential Eating Animals, [Foer] brings both personality and passion to an issue that no one has figured out how to address in a way that inspires an adequate response. (The New York Times Book Review)

Beautiful, powerful writing that's made me rethink the way I eat. (Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid Heat)

Foer's message is both moving and painful, depressing and optimistic (Publisher's Weekly)

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0241984912
• ISBN 13: 9780241984918
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288