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Confused about the premise of this novel. The description made ivy sound much more nefarious than she has come across so far. I’m not disliking the tone, just unsure of why the publicist would exaggerate so much to sell a perfectly good story

Compelled by the titular character from the first paragraph. Our upbringings have stark differences but I relate fervently to finding solace in books, feeling some pressing need to fit in through clothes accessories etc, and always striving for some marker of affection / perfection I feel I’ve yet to attain

Astounding that a group of doctors decided patients with DNR orders should be prioritized last for evacuation by misunderstanding the principles of DNR and contorting the patients’ wishes to lie in line with their view of resource allocation

Naomi Klein is such a smart writer and researcher. She pivots from the economic chokehold that oil companies have over government to the ideology of using the earth as our waste dump in the last few chapters of this first section. She describes the disparity between noticing climate change and having the tools to act on it - “western culture has worked very hard to erase indigenous cosmologies”

Wow. I’d like to think I’ve always suspected that capitalism is toxic, but that little part of my brain had no inkling of the scale to which consumerism is taking over our world in the worst way. Naomi Klein lays out the facts here and illustrates them with compelling examples - eg, the right’s anti-green stance comes out of recognizing how much the capitalist system would need to change for environmental good

"Wherever parts of the globally dispersed cow land, the clusters of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease seem to grow" (57)
I greatly appreciate Livingston's ability to spell out all the effects of a global beef trade, centering on Botswana but affecting desertification, chronic health conditions, and methane production or fartopocene.