I know the Earth is changing, deteriorating, rapidly, before my own eyes. I see it myself.
But to have these changes framed in David's eyes, against his 94 years on this Earth, is startling.r />
94 years is both an incredible length of time filled with David's incredible work and life contributions, and an incredibly short blunt period of time in which we've depleted and polluted the Earth's resources so rapidly that we're now approaching an exponential rate.
David puts our current crisis together in full, beyond just climate; our seas, the remaining wilderness, farming practices, social inequalities and inequities.
Part one was so startling and sobering, I almost didn't continue. But I'm glad I did. Because in the remaining pages, there is hope: there IS answers to 'how can we change?', there is solutions. And not just theoretical ones. Across the globe solutions are already taking place. All we need is to bring these solutions and practices out of isolation, and apply them globally, together, as a whole.
It is a read that requires no prior knowledge or specialist understanding. But which educates the reader so completely. It shouldn't surprise me, just how educational it was; David's skill as a narrator and producer of natural world documentaries, definitely translates to text.
And yes, I did read it in his voice lol. I couldn't read the words without hearing his distinct voice. If the audiobook is narrated by himself (I suspect it would be), it'd be worth seeking that out.
An important read for all of us, in the here and now.
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But to have these changes framed in David's eyes, against his 94 years on this Earth, is startling.
David puts our current crisis together in full, beyond just climate; our seas, the remaining wilderness, farming practices, social inequalities and inequities.
Part one was so startling and sobering, I almost didn't continue. But I'm glad I did. Because in the remaining pages, there is hope: there IS answers to 'how can we change?', there is solutions. And not just theoretical ones. Across the globe solutions are already taking place. All we need is to bring these solutions and practices out of isolation, and apply them globally, together, as a whole.
It is a read that requires no prior knowledge or specialist understanding. But which educates the reader so completely. It shouldn't surprise me, just how educational it was; David's skill as a narrator and producer of natural world documentaries, definitely translates to text.
And yes, I did read it in his voice lol. I couldn't read the words without hearing his distinct voice. If the audiobook is narrated by himself (I suspect it would be), it'd be worth seeking that out.
An important read for all of us, in the here and now. Show more Show less