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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?
The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselveswith our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eatand don’t eatfor breakfast.
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?
The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselveswith our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eatand don’t eatfor breakfast.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781250757975 |
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Publisher: | Picador |
Publication date: | 08/04/2020 |
Pages: | 288 |
Sales rank: | 49,647 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Hometown:
New York, New YorkDate of Birth:
February 21, 1977Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.Education:
B.A. in Philosophy, Princeton University, 1999Table of Contents
I Unbelievable 1
II How to Prevent the Greatest Dying 73
III Only Home 103
IV Dispute with the Soul 145
V More Life 183
Appendix: 14.5 percent 51 percent 227
Notes 233
Bibliography 247
Acknowledgments 271
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