The Great Derangement

I believe the climate crisis is real, that it is caused by humans, and that we urgently need to change our lifestyles to prevent the destruction of the planet. It's important that I say these things explicitly and up front so that nobody interprets my dislike of this book as some sort of climate change denial.

As I was reading this book I had the strongest feeling of sitting in a boring college lecture, one inside of those big halls with stadium seating and the professor monologuing at you in the front. Well, when I get to the last page and see the acknowledgements, lo and behold, he states that the book is based on a series of lectures that he gave. Zero surprise here. None.

We are decades away from the days when bad writing was the price we paid for reading non-fiction. The author should either have stepped up and done the necessary work of turning these lectures into an engaging book, or just condensed them into a 5 minute TED Talk and left it at that.