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A review by katiedreads
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
This book is an anthology of real-life people's experiences with Climate Change, Sustainable Intervention programmes and the impact both have had good and bad. It is great that it includes women, indigenous and smaller nations' politician. It also includes stories from fossil fuel workers and the desperate need not to demonise them or leave them behind in the plan for clean energy, which provided a nice counter-balance. I think it could have been more rounded if it had covered a wider variety of examples such as industry leaders/politicians and their POVs, or reasons for delaying action and provided a more realistic conclusion. By the end of this book, you are left emotional but hopeful with a feeling that the Paris Agreement with solve most things, and if it doesn't these amazing activists will solve the issue at a grassroots level. As these stories are framed around Mary Robinson's experience in leadership and politics and the Paris Climate Agreement. The writer does amazingly in providing stories of discovery and some successes of Climate Change, but only lightly touches on the limitations of the Paris agreement or the limited success at national/state and global levels. Meaning you don't end the book understanding how bad the situation truly is. However, it does offer great resources for successful grassroots solutions that could be replicated in other communities.