Reviews for We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change

The average rating for We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-11-12 00:00:00 Ira Tumblin Reviewed by Angela S. for TeensReadToo.com WE ARE THE WEATHER MAKERS is a great book for pre-teens and teens to learn about our climate and how it is changing. Starting out with how the carbon cycle works and how to learn to offset your carbon footprint, to sustainable energy sources such as the sun and wind power - this book covers it all. If you want to teach your children to be responsible and help fix our ailing planet, then this book is for you. Filled with a lot of information and examples of ways that other kids have helped make a change, it is a great tool for either the classroom or at home.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-30 00:00:00 Richard F Camacho This would make a good introductory book for middle-school to high-school aged children. It hits all the wavetops of our understanding of the issue pretty well. The weakness comes in the "solutions" offered after every chapter. Most action items are just feel-good things you can change rather than something that would actually help. One suggestion to reducing your oil consumption is to buy shampoo that contains no petrochemicals. Seriously? Unless you have the haircare needs of Rapunzel, holding in a fart probably does more for the planet. Flannery completely fails to mention some of the most alarming problems looming on the horizon such as developing countries with enormous populations exploding into modernity with little to no concern for the environment, or the massively nasty pollution from cargo and cruise ships. He also omits the single largest thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint - have one fewer child. Having a single child will end up pumping more carbon into the air than 120 people switching to a hybrid (Environmental Research Letters, Seth Wynes, 2017). Do authors just not mention this because it would be controversial? Books that provide life advice on reducing your carbon footprint need to provide actual solutions instead of all of these feel-good actions if they want to affect any sort of change. If not, they are just asking you to mop the streets in the rain.