Under the Sky We Make

How to Be Human in a Warming World

By: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

Narrated by: Kimberly Nicholas PhD

** Los Angeles Times bestseller **

It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it.

After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonizing over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys.

In her astonishing, bestselling book Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas does for climate science what Michael Pollan did more than a decade ago for the food on our plate: offering a hopeful, clear-eyed, and somehow also hilarious guide to effecting real change, starting in our own lives. Saving ourselves from climate apocalypse will require radical shifts within each of us, to effect real change in our society and culture. But it can be done. It requires, Dr. Nicholas argues, belief in our own agency and value, alongside a deep understanding that no one will ever hand us power--we're going to have to seize it for ourselves.

This is an excellent, important book.

Both climate denialism and climate nihilism are wrong-headed, unworthy responses to the challenges we face. This book is a clear, strong argument against both, and it clarify what we need to do to responsibly accept those challenges.

A compelling, hopeful message read with wit

The author reads her book in a way that makes you feel like you are catching up with a trusted friend. My 8 yo and I listened to parts together, and it sparked great discussions about the climate and how we got to this catastrophic point, but also what our responsibilities are and what we can do. At the end of the day, the book is hopeful. It inspires action, small and large. Everyone should listen to it, and I found it really great to share the experience with my daughter.

A must read for any lover of our planets.

I highly recommend this book for anyone - change will help heal our planet - begin with baby steps and share share share!

a book everyone needs to hear

Enough sicence to satisfy your need for numbers, enough story to tug at your heart, enough frankness to make you realize our reality and enough action items to motivate you and make you feel like part of the solution.

Balanced & Factual; Dismal Yet Hopeful

Facts, figures and explanations abound. The author goes out of their way to sound the alarms without being an alarmist. Ample context is provided.

Simple and complex approaches to solutions are given, again with plenty of context for their meanings and impacts.

The Sky is Failing would be the Chicken Little approach. Under the Sky We Make is literally the approach of the author.

Time for all of us to listen...and to step up to do our parts.

Unabridged with extremely pleasant narration I enjoyed at 1.1 speed.