We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Jonathan Safran Foer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sep 17, 2019 - Social Science - 288 pages

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 ourselves—with 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 eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

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User Review  - gypsysmom - LibraryThing

The message Jonathan Safran Foer is trying to impart in this book is that people eating meat is a major cause of greenhouse gases and everyone should eat no animal products for breakfast or lunch. He ...

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User Review  - deblemrc - LibraryThing

Boring and irrelevant. The only thing i learned is a simple rule: do not eat animal food before dinner. I am sorry i had to read through 250 pages just for that.

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
• Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
• ISBN: 0374712522, 9780374712525
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology; Social Science / Agriculture & Food