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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
One of Kirkus Review 's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment
"Marvelous." —Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis
How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?
Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet , science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes.
Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.
A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment
"Marvelous." —Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis
How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?
Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet , science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes.
Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.
352 pages, Hardcover
Published August 2, 2022
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Madeline Ostrander
1 book10 followersMadeline Ostrander is a science journalist and the author of AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET: FINDING REFUGE ON A CHANGED EARTH. Her work has appeared in the NewYorker.com, The Nation, Sierra Magazine, PBS's NOVA Next, Slate, and numerous other outlets. Her reporting on climate change and environmental justice has taken her to locations such as the Alaskan Arctic and the Australian outback. She's received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Artist Trust, the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, the Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Edith Cowan University in Australia. She is the former senior editor of YES! magazine and holds a master's degree in environmental science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
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February 16, 2022
At Home on an Unruly Planet by Madeline Ostrander discusses the effects of climate change on our sense of home, community, tradition, and history. As it is often difficult to follow all the dominoes that have been set off by a warming planet, Ostrander looks at a few places specifically to illustrate the larger picture.
Many of us have recognized, if even in a vague way, that there will be more climate refugees as people lose homes and/or an economic base to the changing climate . In some regions, especially in coastal regions, the movement away from the encroaching sea and more frequent and powerful storms has been recognized for years.
The damage to the coastal areas of our country and to the livelihoods of people who, for generations, have depended on the sea (and who have lost homes and possessions many times)--for these people, the recurring losses can create a sense of homelessness that is beyond housing. It is the loss of a way of life that includes family history, community, culture and hope for the next generation.
By looking at a few places in greater detail, Ostrander lets readers extrapolate that information to apply in varying degrees to all disaster prone areas. The country and the world is confronting climate disasters, experiencing higher tides, more frequent and severe flooding, drought, and wildfires. These catastrophes result in the loss of local histories, traditions, culture, historic buildings, and communities as well as individual homes. Ostrander examines instances in which communities struggle to prepare for more change, but there are also places where continuing the fight is no longer feasible; where individuals and entire areas have accepted that they have to let go.
Ostrander looks at an Inuit village in Alaska lost to the sea and thawing tundra that must relocate an entire village (there are more since Ostrander visited and researched Newtok); the fires in the Pacific North West that burn hotter, faster, and more frequently; the effect of pollution on the local population from a refinery in Richmond, CA; and the loss of historic buildings in St. Augustine, FL. Her writing is personal and reflects on predictions of how and when the warming climate will make changes in our lives, what is being done to prepare for the changes, and what must yet be done to ease the transitions that are required.
Individuals can and should plan and prepare (as those in wildfire areas and in areas threatened by flooding know--having a go bag with important papers, water, food, flashlights, etc. can make a huge difference in case of a disaster). Communities are often more effective working together as a unit, harnessing the talents and knowledge of its citizens when an emergency occurs. Individuals and even communities, however, cannot prevent or mediate climate change emergencies on their own. It is imperative that local, state, and national government be involved in planning for the changes to come.
Highly Recommended.
NetGalley/Henry Holt & Co
Nonfiction/Climate Preparedness. Aug. 2, 2022. Print length: 352 pages.
Many of us have recognized, if even in a vague way, that there will be more climate refugees as people lose homes and/or an economic base to the changing climate . In some regions, especially in coastal regions, the movement away from the encroaching sea and more frequent and powerful storms has been recognized for years.
The damage to the coastal areas of our country and to the livelihoods of people who, for generations, have depended on the sea (and who have lost homes and possessions many times)--for these people, the recurring losses can create a sense of homelessness that is beyond housing. It is the loss of a way of life that includes family history, community, culture and hope for the next generation.
By looking at a few places in greater detail, Ostrander lets readers extrapolate that information to apply in varying degrees to all disaster prone areas. The country and the world is confronting climate disasters, experiencing higher tides, more frequent and severe flooding, drought, and wildfires. These catastrophes result in the loss of local histories, traditions, culture, historic buildings, and communities as well as individual homes. Ostrander examines instances in which communities struggle to prepare for more change, but there are also places where continuing the fight is no longer feasible; where individuals and entire areas have accepted that they have to let go.
Ostrander looks at an Inuit village in Alaska lost to the sea and thawing tundra that must relocate an entire village (there are more since Ostrander visited and researched Newtok); the fires in the Pacific North West that burn hotter, faster, and more frequently; the effect of pollution on the local population from a refinery in Richmond, CA; and the loss of historic buildings in St. Augustine, FL. Her writing is personal and reflects on predictions of how and when the warming climate will make changes in our lives, what is being done to prepare for the changes, and what must yet be done to ease the transitions that are required.
Individuals can and should plan and prepare (as those in wildfire areas and in areas threatened by flooding know--having a go bag with important papers, water, food, flashlights, etc. can make a huge difference in case of a disaster). Communities are often more effective working together as a unit, harnessing the talents and knowledge of its citizens when an emergency occurs. Individuals and even communities, however, cannot prevent or mediate climate change emergencies on their own. It is imperative that local, state, and national government be involved in planning for the changes to come.
Highly Recommended.
NetGalley/Henry Holt & Co
Nonfiction/Climate Preparedness. Aug. 2, 2022. Print length: 352 pages.
September 1, 2022
4.5 stars rounded up.
I know Madeline Ostrander slightly through the environmental and journalism communities in Seattle and had been following her book journey on Facebook, so I was eager to get my hands on it as soon as it came out. It did not disappoint. This is a beautifully written book that looks at climate change through the experiences of four communities dealing with different related issues: the wildfire-ravaged Okanagan region east of Washington's Cascade Mountains; the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida, threatened by rising sea levels; a Native Alaskan village forced to relocate because of melting permafrost; and the city of Richmond in California's Bay Area, under the shadow of a Chevron refinery where fires and other pollution provide frequent reminders of the environmental and health hazards of the fossil fuel industry. In between chapters about these communities are essays dealing with the broader issue of how we can adapt and reclaim our sense of home even as our planet changes and becomes, as Ostrander puts it, ever more unruly.
Ostrander is a fantastic reporter and a thoughtful, eloquent essayist, and the book's structure works well. She does a beautiful job of humanizing the scale of climate change through the specific stories she tells, while also providing an overarching framework that gives these stories global relevance. This could have been a gloom-and-doom book, but it isn't, even though Ostrander doesn't shy away from addressing the dire situation we and our planet are in. Certainly there are depressing aspects, but by illuminating the actions of individual communities, Ostrander manages to find an elusive sense of hope while also reinforcing the need for urgent action.
The chapters about Richmond, while interesting and important, dragged slightly for me, hence the 4.5-star rating, but I'm rounding up rather than down because of the book's overall excellence.
I know Madeline Ostrander slightly through the environmental and journalism communities in Seattle and had been following her book journey on Facebook, so I was eager to get my hands on it as soon as it came out. It did not disappoint. This is a beautifully written book that looks at climate change through the experiences of four communities dealing with different related issues: the wildfire-ravaged Okanagan region east of Washington's Cascade Mountains; the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida, threatened by rising sea levels; a Native Alaskan village forced to relocate because of melting permafrost; and the city of Richmond in California's Bay Area, under the shadow of a Chevron refinery where fires and other pollution provide frequent reminders of the environmental and health hazards of the fossil fuel industry. In between chapters about these communities are essays dealing with the broader issue of how we can adapt and reclaim our sense of home even as our planet changes and becomes, as Ostrander puts it, ever more unruly.
Ostrander is a fantastic reporter and a thoughtful, eloquent essayist, and the book's structure works well. She does a beautiful job of humanizing the scale of climate change through the specific stories she tells, while also providing an overarching framework that gives these stories global relevance. This could have been a gloom-and-doom book, but it isn't, even though Ostrander doesn't shy away from addressing the dire situation we and our planet are in. Certainly there are depressing aspects, but by illuminating the actions of individual communities, Ostrander manages to find an elusive sense of hope while also reinforcing the need for urgent action.
The chapters about Richmond, while interesting and important, dragged slightly for me, hence the 4.5-star rating, but I'm rounding up rather than down because of the book's overall excellence.
October 11, 2022
I really liked this! If one cares about climate change, you will enjoy this book.
July 25, 2024
Interesting. A lot of this I didn't know. Good read!
August 23, 2022
“We are all building these walls and roofs and lives together, on this one messy and unruly blue planet.”
Home is so many things in Madeline Ostrander’s AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET. It’s more than just a traditional, individual structure we deem our own. Nor is it just a place or a sense of safety. Home, to Ostrander, is the world around us — a world that is increasingly imperiled by climate change.
By using personal stories, featuring intimate characters and providing a straightforward, thorough walk-through of her reporting, Ostrander takes on a layered topic with poise and simplicity. She drops readers off in Alaska, California and Florida, sending them on an exhilarating journey she’s crafted. In each place, the reader meets a handful of people across the country who are working to protect and preserve their homes.
AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET is a call to immediate climate action — one that inspires hope in the face of the world’s most pressing modern emergency. The book does a wonderful job of also evoking a sense of agency among readers, while still demanding nothing short of urgency. Everything about it is gorgeous — from the writing to the cover to the title — and I couldn’t have read it at a better time. AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET is what my weary, worried heart didn’t know it needed.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Henry Holt & Co for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.*
Home is so many things in Madeline Ostrander’s AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET. It’s more than just a traditional, individual structure we deem our own. Nor is it just a place or a sense of safety. Home, to Ostrander, is the world around us — a world that is increasingly imperiled by climate change.
By using personal stories, featuring intimate characters and providing a straightforward, thorough walk-through of her reporting, Ostrander takes on a layered topic with poise and simplicity. She drops readers off in Alaska, California and Florida, sending them on an exhilarating journey she’s crafted. In each place, the reader meets a handful of people across the country who are working to protect and preserve their homes.
AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET is a call to immediate climate action — one that inspires hope in the face of the world’s most pressing modern emergency. The book does a wonderful job of also evoking a sense of agency among readers, while still demanding nothing short of urgency. Everything about it is gorgeous — from the writing to the cover to the title — and I couldn’t have read it at a better time. AT HOME ON AN UNRULY PLANET is what my weary, worried heart didn’t know it needed.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Henry Holt & Co for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.*
November 9, 2023
Another review I missed 😩
First, a BIG thank you to @HenryHolt & @Goodreads for the arc #giveaway.
The back called this a “required [read] for anyone who wants a home in the twenty-first century,” and it maybe. I don’t know if I would say it should be a “required” read but it’s definitely a great introduction to climate change from a 1st person perspective. Ostrander does interview the people she writes about and also provides footnotes & a “Notes” section with all her sources—which I appreciate 💕
These essays(?) help show how climate change affects everyone, and in ways that one wouldn’t think, like the abandoned land left by businesses — when I read this section I thought of the cities that BUILT specific building to host the Olympics and were NEVER repurposed — just left there.
Anyway, it’s worth the read for sure, sadly, I don’t see this being a “required” read in OK, USA 🙄
—> 3.5 rounded up
First, a BIG thank you to @HenryHolt & @Goodreads for the arc #giveaway.
The back called this a “required [read] for anyone who wants a home in the twenty-first century,” and it maybe. I don’t know if I would say it should be a “required” read but it’s definitely a great introduction to climate change from a 1st person perspective. Ostrander does interview the people she writes about and also provides footnotes & a “Notes” section with all her sources—which I appreciate 💕
These essays(?) help show how climate change affects everyone, and in ways that one wouldn’t think, like the abandoned land left by businesses — when I read this section I thought of the cities that BUILT specific building to host the Olympics and were NEVER repurposed — just left there.
Anyway, it’s worth the read for sure, sadly, I don’t see this being a “required” read in OK, USA 🙄
—> 3.5 rounded up
January 13, 2023
How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?
I got much more of a sense of the terrible wildfires on the west coast and the floods on the east coast. They had been distant news items, but this brings it home. The sea is rising and there's no turning it back. Many communities on the east coast will be flooded. The author brings us stories of people who love their land and place working within the realities of a changed world.
A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. The permafrost is melting and the land is literally eroding underneath a village in Alaska. She shows the slow movement towards relocating a whole community.
Because I've been a farmer, I was most moved by the story of Doria Robinson, an urban farmer in Richmond, California, where the Chevron oil refinery periodically spews its toxic fumes onto the community.
The author intersperses the reporting with essays and musings about the meaning of home, and on the strengths we will need going forward with climate change. There will be many climate refugees in the years to come. Do we have what it takes to meet this changing world by working together, not fighting for crumbs?
I got much more of a sense of the terrible wildfires on the west coast and the floods on the east coast. They had been distant news items, but this brings it home. The sea is rising and there's no turning it back. Many communities on the east coast will be flooded. The author brings us stories of people who love their land and place working within the realities of a changed world.
A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. The permafrost is melting and the land is literally eroding underneath a village in Alaska. She shows the slow movement towards relocating a whole community.
Because I've been a farmer, I was most moved by the story of Doria Robinson, an urban farmer in Richmond, California, where the Chevron oil refinery periodically spews its toxic fumes onto the community.
The author intersperses the reporting with essays and musings about the meaning of home, and on the strengths we will need going forward with climate change. There will be many climate refugees in the years to come. Do we have what it takes to meet this changing world by working together, not fighting for crumbs?
August 15, 2022
3.5 rounded to 4.0
Madeline Ostrander is an environmental journalist who has written for scientific publications as well as for popular science publications. Now she has written a book that looks at the issues of climate change and its causes from the viewpoint of people and communities. She explores four communities and how the people have had to change their lives in response to the damage that has accumulated year after year. This is told from our sense of home, community, traditions and history. The author examines these issues in the Pacific Northwest wildfires, to protect St. Augustine, Florida from rising sea levels, North California fossil fuel disasters and an Alaskan Native American community where an entire village disappeared due to site erosion.
This debut book includes reporting on the climate change effects interspersed with essays focusing on the individual and community adaptation to climate changes. The causes of climate change are illuminated by the stories of these communities and individuals without appearing as a strictly academic/scientific book. The prose is smooth, well written and interesting in a field many readers have chosen to eschew from their reading. This book reintroduces these concepts as a human element. It is a book I highly recommend.
Madeline Ostrander is an environmental journalist who has written for scientific publications as well as for popular science publications. Now she has written a book that looks at the issues of climate change and its causes from the viewpoint of people and communities. She explores four communities and how the people have had to change their lives in response to the damage that has accumulated year after year. This is told from our sense of home, community, traditions and history. The author examines these issues in the Pacific Northwest wildfires, to protect St. Augustine, Florida from rising sea levels, North California fossil fuel disasters and an Alaskan Native American community where an entire village disappeared due to site erosion.
This debut book includes reporting on the climate change effects interspersed with essays focusing on the individual and community adaptation to climate changes. The causes of climate change are illuminated by the stories of these communities and individuals without appearing as a strictly academic/scientific book. The prose is smooth, well written and interesting in a field many readers have chosen to eschew from their reading. This book reintroduces these concepts as a human element. It is a book I highly recommend.
August 24, 2022
Phenomenal book! Centered on the idea of home (and all its iterations and forms), Ostrander spent time, did phenomenal research and re-visited a host of sites where people were trying to reclaim and preserve their homelands plagued by water, fire, pollution and loss of land due to global warming.
From California to Alabama to Lousiana to Alaska, she details efforts to grow food, help others, work to reverse erosion and soil health, resist huge wildfires and floods and HOPEFULLY, little by little, begin to reverse the collapse of systems on Earth. She merges history, science, personal stories and persistent return/contact with each site to write a book of dismay - and hope.
She puts her faith in "from the ground up" work rather than corporate do-goodism.
And she places blame where it belongs - on longstanding refusal to recognize and ameliorate what lies before our eyes.
Celebrating the work of poorer people, rather than corporate or governmental giveaways, is another boon.
Highly recommend this book.
From California to Alabama to Lousiana to Alaska, she details efforts to grow food, help others, work to reverse erosion and soil health, resist huge wildfires and floods and HOPEFULLY, little by little, begin to reverse the collapse of systems on Earth. She merges history, science, personal stories and persistent return/contact with each site to write a book of dismay - and hope.
She puts her faith in "from the ground up" work rather than corporate do-goodism.
And she places blame where it belongs - on longstanding refusal to recognize and ameliorate what lies before our eyes.
Celebrating the work of poorer people, rather than corporate or governmental giveaways, is another boon.
Highly recommend this book.
December 27, 2025
This is a finely wrought and layered exploration of place (several places, actually), people, and the inextricable connections between them, in the age of climate change. I leave the book confirmed in the following convictions: (1) while global in scope, the challenges confronting us from climate change are (and will be) confronted locally - and local action, particularly building (and maintaining) community, is our best hope both for avoiding despair and for building the kind of consensus we will need to utterly re-make the basis for our civilization. (2) As has been true for ever, environmental harm (and consequently environmental action) is experienced differently by different social strata. Much more hypothetical (and abstract) for those of us who have the education, social position, and economic means to avoid major harm, such harm is immediate, persistent and ongoing for communities on the "front lines." And (3), it is these communities where we should look NOW for the kinds of action (and courage) we will all need in the years to come.
April 24, 2023
'At Home on an Unruly Planet' is a breathtaking and profoundly moving work that sheds light on the personal impact of climate change. Through powerful storytelling, Ostrander takes us on a tour of the myriad facets of the environmental movement rising against ecological chaos. While also grounding us in the importance of home during a dramatically changing era. As a Richmond resident, the problems with Chevron in Richmond and the incredible resilience of Doria Robinson are particularly inspiring, demonstrating the power of community and the hope that lies in collective action.
Ostrander's writing is beautiful and poignant, weaving together history and landscape to create a powerful call to action. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges we face as a global community and a testament to the transformative power of literature.
Ostrander's writing is beautiful and poignant, weaving together history and landscape to create a powerful call to action. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges we face as a global community and a testament to the transformative power of literature.
April 28, 2023
I picked this up after hearing that a local leader from my city, Richmond CA, was featured prominently in their resistance to the Chevron plant that dominates the landscape here like Mordor. I moved to Richmond after the Chevron plant disasters that clouded out the sky and rained ash on neighborhoods. I’ve seen the flares late at night and the oil spill in the Bay and have dreaded another tragic event or even hearing that Chevron is finally closing but leaving behind a toxic waste site without legal repercussions.
I learned a lot about not just Richmond’s and Chevron’s history but also other communities that are struggling with looming environmental disasters. I recommend this book for anyone starting to think about specific ways climate change will impact different communities and ways we can exist within a changing space.
I learned a lot about not just Richmond’s and Chevron’s history but also other communities that are struggling with looming environmental disasters. I recommend this book for anyone starting to think about specific ways climate change will impact different communities and ways we can exist within a changing space.
July 22, 2024
This is a book about climate change, but Ostrander doesn't focus on statistics or global strategies. Instead, she highlights individuals working for change in their communities - one trowel of dirt at a time. Each community is especially at risk - due to increased fire, ocean level rise, or an aging and unsafe oil refinery. Through extensive interviews and observations, Ostrander chronicles how one dedicated person can rally their community around building a place to live and thrive, despite the constant and soul-wrenching setbacks that beset this work. At Home on an Unruly Planet made me realize how little of the climate change conversation is focused on individual communities and how deeply important this on-the-ground local efforts are.
April 23, 2023
This is a really thoughtful book about people working to protect their homes and communities from climate chaos, with meditations on the meaning and history of the concept of home sprinkled throughout. I really appreciate that this book grapples with the enormity of the climate crisis but isn't depressing or hopeless - it strikes the right balance between being truthful about how much we're already losing, and will likely lose in the future, while also making it clear that there's so much to save if we work together and act in solidarity with the most marginalized communities.
December 28, 2024
I felt reluctant to read another book about climate change when I feel like I know the salient facts (thank you, Seattle public schools education circa 1990), but I do try to read things now and then to keep myself up to date. Ostrander investigates several communities over time dealing with climate change; and the reader gets to know these communities. I guess I felt like I was ready for the same old same old bad news, but found her narration subtle and complex, and found myself thinking new things about home and community.
September 2, 2023
Fantastic book about our TRUE home -- Planet Earth. And as she changes, how will we continue to protect her, love her, live upon her? "How do we make a home on this unruly planet?" That's what the book starts with and explores. I'd say that it's not the planet that's unruly, of course -- she is governed by her own wisdoms -- but WE are unruly, and now we've got to figure out how to live better, restore, adapt, care. Wonderful read!
August 2, 2022
An interesting look at climate change and its actual effects on people. I liked the balance of information/background d with anecdotal stories of people living through tragedy and trauma caused by climate change. Perhaps this will help convince some naysayers that our actions need to reflect the future we want.
March 23, 2022
This is a well-written book of reporting on how our climate is changing. Readers will likely be compelled to think more deeply about their future and the planet's as they read this. Recommended.
I really appreciate the free ARC for review!!
I really appreciate the free ARC for review!!
July 2, 2022
An excellent look at the personal costs of climate change. Too often the topic gets discussed in terms of economic costs rather than in terms of human catastrophe and cultural devastation. I highly recommend this book. Well done.
September 30, 2023
One of the best books I've read this year. Well written, not your typical climate change book, and down to earth real. It has history, science, politics, and events; but most of all it has community and heart.
July 5, 2024
Madeline is a good story teller and has obviously done an incredible amount of research. She includes in-depth coverage of so many example disasters and climate change impacts. The book did take me quite a bit of time to work my way through.
October 17, 2022
A moving account of the stories of different communities affected by climate change. A welcome contrast to the other dry literature.
December 31, 2022
This is an important book, one which I've had a hard time reviewing. I will be back with a deeper review soon, but wanted to log this in today as a book finished in 2022.
January 14, 2023
A really important look at issues I find that a lot of people don't like to think about
July 4, 2023
Great stories, heavy read.
September 17, 2023
I enjoyed the book and found the example communities very interesting. It is not so big on describing how we will find refuge but more how communities are coping with uncertain times.
December 25, 2023
This is a great nonfiction book about the climate crisis. The author interviewed people living in areas affected by wildfires, floods, and rising sea levels. Highly recommended.
August 4, 2024
I loved the stories in this book. I think it is a necessary read about how climate change will affect us all. Community is needed if we're going to get through this.
March 12, 2025
It was good, but it felt lengthy. It had a lot of good information in it though and definitely worth the read
February 6, 2023
Hopeful? I thought not. But At Home on an Unruly Planet brings the reader into community after community dealing with the cycles of disaster-cleanup-adaptation-disaster happening all around us. It's an important if not uplifting read.
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