I finished this book in a day because it is an easy read. By that, I by no means mean the subject or the mental impact of the book, however. Especially the first part, which describes how we got to this point with climate change, is almost crippling depressing. At a certain point teh author notes, "If you by now want to lie down in the fetal position, me too."
It does get better... eventually. Not in the first half of part 2 though, that describes a distopian, but unfortunately very likely, future. You'll start to feel some optimism when you come to the next scenario: while no utopia, it's a world with clean energy available for all. That little spark of hope is shattered on the final pages of this part: both scenarios are extremes and unlikely to happen as described.
Then, if you haven't thrown the book out of the window by now and not in the fetal position on the floor, it does get better. Mommers describes people fighting for the environments, the Greta Thunbergs amongst us, and the lawyers that won a shocking victory for the envirnoment in the Netheterlands. Of course, we can't all be heroes like that, but there are things we can do, like voting people out who keep the status quo, eat less meat, fly less, etc.
Even for someone as sceptical as me, this book gave me a teeny tiny bit of hope that maybe, just maybe, we can still change the future in a green, solar powered utopia.