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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Green Ideas)
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*Unpopular opinion alert* I absolutely hated this little book.
It is a collection of Greta’s speeches, but they are all extremely dull to read, and various paragraphs are repeated over and over in different speeches. This does not mean I find her uninspiring or that I don’t believe in climate change, I 1000% do! But this book is absolutely not the way to go if you want to convince people of your cause. There is background info missing, which I guess you wouldn’t have time to explain during a speech, but since this is a book it would have made it much more interesting if we got more background info on the claims she is making, and the locations/background info on the speeches themselves, e.g. telling the readers a little about the situation and why she was going to speech at a certain location and why that day etc.
I don’t recommend this book at all. Don’t give this to climate skeptics and don’t give this to people that are on the fence, this will not convince them of the realness or the urgency of the problem unfortunately.
It is a collection of Greta’s speeches, but they are all extremely dull to read, and various paragraphs are repeated over and over in different speeches. This does not mean I find her uninspiring or that I don’t believe in climate change, I 1000% do! But this book is absolutely not the way to go if you want to convince people of your cause. There is background info missing, which I guess you wouldn’t have time to explain during a speech, but since this is a book it would have made it much more interesting if we got more background info on the claims she is making, and the locations/background info on the speeches themselves, e.g. telling the readers a little about the situation and why she was going to speech at a certain location and why that day etc.
I don’t recommend this book at all. Don’t give this to climate skeptics and don’t give this to people that are on the fence, this will not convince them of the realness or the urgency of the problem unfortunately.
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Oct 23, 2019 03:28PM
This book looks like it was packaged as schwag for conspicuous consumption.
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@C yes I completely agree!
Oh my goodness, I just left an extremely similar review - I don’t condemn or deny the message at all, but this collection of speeches was not the way to do it!
What “claims� is she making? All she says over and over is that we are in the midst of a climate crisis and we need to act now. Also not sure what background information she can provide on climate change? It’s all out there and obvious.
Yes, it wasn't the most exciting page turner. But it is a record of her speeches, and the changes in them record the responses to Greya's actions. While it felt repetitive I figured that was really one of the points she makes - that climate crisis is obvious, yet people still aren't paying attention.
