Shireen’s Reviews > Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis > Status Update
Shireen
is 32% done
I gave up. Interesting, relevant to my novel research, but I don’t have the cognitive bandwidth to convert an obsolete measurement system to metric which the whole world incl many Americans use. If US authors want to stick to F, don’t publish worldwide🤬 I’m going to mark this as unfinished. American authors should get their heads out of isolationism & recognize if they’re publishing worldwide, use metric.
— Sep 11, 2025 09:23AM
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Shireen
is 31% done
Extremely annoying and disruptive to have to convert Fahrenheit units to metric to put it in context of 1.5°C warming that everyone talks about in order to compare the Great Dying temp change. When the world uses metric, it’s ignorant to use only Imperial.
— Sep 11, 2025 09:21AM
Shireen
is 14% done
Although I’ve read up on (and learnt a lot about it back in school), I’ve not read about Earth’s past from this perspective before. It’s interesting and, I think, will help me with worldbuilding. Audiobooks aren’t really amenable to using bookmarks like paperbacks. In that way, paper really is the best medium for referencing later.
— Sep 10, 2025 07:01AM
