Warmth

Coming of Age at the End of Our World

By: Daniel Sherrell

Narrated by: Daniel Sherrell

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORKER AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“[Warmth] is lyrical and erudite, engaging with science, activism, and philosophy . . . [Sherrell] captures the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair—the pendulum of emotional states that defines our attitude toward the future.” —The New Yorker

“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” —Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe

Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future—and a family—under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?

Excellent and cathartic

While listening to this book, I found myself over and over realizing that I had felt or gone through the same processes that Daniel describes so well. This is the first book I’ve ever read or listenEd to that actually describes what it’s like to go up against these giant corporations, faceless and uncaring politicians and mind-numbingly and unnecessarily complex systems that are designed to keep people out. In my area, which is clean energy, despite the gravity of climate change, utilities continue to kill rooftop solar, kill energy efficiency programs, pretend that $500 billion in health and environmental damage is dumped on mostly poor people does not matter, and that all that really matters is that we pay electric utility CEOs 10 or $20 million a year to basically destroy our future. It’s gob smacking, and once young people realize what has been done, they will be mad. I’m already mad, and it’s 65 years old, I’m not going to face the horrible changes that my young friends and family members will. I so appreciate Daniel writing this book, it has helped me tremendously.

Every person should read this book

You've never read or listen to a book quite like this period the author uses every tool at his disposal to show us how huge the problem is . The problem, of course, is global global warming . Every person should read this book or listen to it. And I should also say that he ends on a note of hope.

What future do our children face? Deep insights on climate

Daniel Sherrell lays bare the great moral questions of our time, tenderly exploring the emotional and spiritual contours of “The Problem.”

As the title suggests - ‘Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World’ - Sherrell offers a blunt and clear-eyed perspective from a young author stepping into the looming shadow of an uncertain future. The book is really a letter, addressed to Sherrell’s hypothetical future child, in which he searches for answers to life’s largest questions. What future do we face? What future do our children face? Should I have a child at this moment in history? What are my ethical obligations to future generations?

This book will be relatable to anyone who has been a child, has parents, is a parent, or may become a parent. That is to say, it is a book for everyone - a brilliant work of shimmering prose which explores ideas universal to the human experience. However, this is not a Climate Science 101 book. This is a book for people who already have an understanding of the truth of “The Problem,” as Sherrell calls it in this book, and who are interested in a sharp and beautifully articulated perspective on what The Problem means for our lives and our children’s lives.

Worst Audible I Have Listened To

Author reads his book in a monotone. It has no insights into climate change. It is all about the author enamored with crafting big words and fanciful phrases without any real thought behind them. Highly disappointed!