Human nature: nine ways to feel about our changing planet Kate Marfhe ECCO (2025)
The idea that the high concentrations of carbon dioxide can heat the planet dating back to the mid -nineteenth century. In 1856, women and world rights activist UNICE Foot showed that2 And water vapor heat in the atmosphere1. The validity of her work, which was often ignored at the time, was verified through contracts of research that has been significantly built a clear picture. The average global temperature has increased since the industrial revolution, and fossil fuels are launched2 Green gas and human activity levels are the main cause of global warming.
“Searching for climate change seems to stand on the road to the nearby train.”
However, as the climate scientist Kate Marvel notes in Human naturePolicy makers took a little work amazingly in response to escalating evidence. Efforts have been hindered by decades of pressure by strong organizations such as oil companies. In this convincing book, Marvel argues that people need to adopt an emotional response, and not just a book based on data, to do widespread work. Climate scientists and activists will be aware of some emotions that multiply such as chapter titles – anger, fear and sadness. But Marvel insists on the need for wonder, love and hope as well.
Through the fabric in personal tales, it makes the science behind climate change to be accessible: how the Earth system works, how greenhouse gases, the effects of global warming, the complexity of models and uncertainty are disrupted. For example, Marvell narrates an impressive experience in her fearful experience through Hurricane Eda in 2021, which caused catastrophic floods that killed at least 13 people in New York City. Then he explains that the air can carry about 7 % of the water vapor for each degree sheats. When this steam condenses, it leads short rains. The chapter is especially useful because it does not only show how storms form, but also why warming causes heavier rain.
Disturbing
I can only share Marvel’s anger and frustrate. Climate science offers to the extent that denying a person’s climate change feels alone. Its models, and its thousands, which are developed by other scientists, may differ in spatial and temporal accuracy, but they all lead to the same unambiguous conclusion: the Earth is heating and will continue to do so unless greenhouse gas emissions decrease to scratch.
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Scientists have seen their models from the world of warming achieved during their private lives – faster than expected. It is interesting to see the individual predictions to be confirmed, to be able to predict the future with a remarkable accuracy. However, watching climate change reveals in the actual time, with already clear consequences when it could be avoided or mitigated, is very annoying.
The book highlights the destructive consequences of harsh weather through the fabric together historical and contemporary examples: a huge volcanic eruption in 43 B.C.E. Which caused political turmoil in the Roman Empire and Father in ancient Egypt; Drought destroyed in a dust container in the thirties of the twentieth century in the United States; And the catastrophic floods in Texas that led to Hurricane Harvey in 2017. References to Greek myths and historical events, such as the fall of ancient Egypt due to the failure of crops caused by the patterns of broken rain after the volcanic explosion, makes the narration engagement and entertainment.
Power on Par, volcanic.Credit: Maxar/Getty
However, Marvel could have discussed social science studies that explain how climate shocks affect their livelihoods and human welfare2–4. These effects are rarely direct or isolated; They extend through economic, political and environmental systems.
Follow how climate change affects livelihoods also reveals the reason for the weakness of some groups from others. Dehydration, for example, can nourish the conflict and push immigration, especially in fragile cases with weak judgment and mismanagement of resources5. Determining such mechanisms is very important, as they can help policy makers develop targeted and effective intervention strategies.