The literary albatross that you just can't slog through - not even when your Modern Literature grade is riding on it. Even Chris Hemsworth wasn't able to make a movie about the expedition that inspired the book entertaining, and Chris Hemsworth is wholly entertaining all on his own.īut I'm not alone - everyone has that one book. Consequently, I believe it is one of the most overrated classic books I have ever encountered. Despite many (many! ) attempts to read it, I still haven't been able to get through it all. Rogers was referencing one of many books that experts recommended to us as worthy reads for anyone this Earth Day and beyond.I still have nightmares about trying to read Moby Dick for a college literature class. “Just when I was out of breath from the enormity of the human impact on our planet, Tom gave me hope that if we all work together now, not later, there is hope,” said Kathleen Rogers, president of EARTHDAY.ORG, a nonprofit organization that campaigns for environmental protection. By understanding the facts about the state of our planet, they argue that you can make more informed decisions about conservation and care for the earth. And one of them can be as simple as picking up a book. While the statistics may be daunting, climate activists argue that not all hope is lost - and there are still many efforts individuals can take. Carbon Brief found that 68 percent of all extreme weather events in the last 20 years were made “more severe by humans” - the 2017 study curated data from 230 studies to determine how human activities like burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gasoline and natural gas) has made these extreme weather events more likely to occur. In the past decade, we’ve seen this play out across the globe: stifling heat waves in Greenland, persistent droughts in the Southwest and devastating wildfires in California. Rising temperatures, droughts and wildfires - all of them among the visible climate change indicators accepted by scientists - have more than doubled in the last 40 years, according to Carbon Brief, a climate science research organization funded by the nonprofit European Climate Foundation.

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