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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 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.

ISBN-13: 9781250757975

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Publication Date: 08-04-2020

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Table 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