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H Is for Hope

Climate Change from A to Z

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Eunice Wong
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In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.
In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from "A," for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to "Z," for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg's "blah blah blah" speech ("B"), learns to fly an all-electric plane ("E"), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body ("T"), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change ("U").

Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous—a unique examination of our changing world.

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    March 26, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781797175003
      • File size: 42115 KB
      • Duration: 01:27:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Structured alphabetically by topic, this audiobook, a climate change primer, is a brief but pithy listen, as narrated primarily by the gifted Eunice Wong. Kolbert delivers the foreword and Section Z. Wong's performance is first rate. She narrates crisply, with the right pace and style for science. And Wong gets Kolbert--she captures the award-winning author's talent for research, commitment to direct reporting, and remarkable ability to decode complex concepts into understandable stories. The A-to-Z format allows the author to access the real successes of alternative energies--affordable wind and solar power--and to candidly detail the global challenges that rising temperatures and tides pose. Her thoughtful Chapter O--for Objections--clarifies the sheer scale and scope of the problems that humankind faces. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2024

      Adapting from essays originally published in the New Yorker, science writer Kolbert (Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future) offers 26 texts--one for each letter of the alphabet--interrogating the climate crisis. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is skilled at making complex material accessible, and while some of the topics of this volume are bleak (as one might expect, considering the current state of the planet), listeners will find humorous and lighthearted material as well. B is for "Blah Blah Blah" (a reference to Greta Thunberg's now-famous speech at the 2021 Youth4Climate conference), and U is for "Uncertainty," a sentiment listeners will likely recognize. F is for "Flight," describing Kolbert's journey in a fully electric plane, and G is for "Green Concrete," a promising development in an area plagued by high carbon emissions. Kolbert reads the foreword and the essay for Z ("(Ground) Zero"), while Eunice Wong is the primary narrator. Listeners will appreciate the calmness and smoothness with which Wong delivers compelling, harrowing, and even hopeful facts. VERDICT Kolbert has written a quick but meticulously researched guide to the many sides and faces of the climate crisis. While D may be for "Despair," H is for "Hope," and Y is for "You."--Whitney Bates-Gomez

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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