This is a fabulous read. It will be remembered for a long time. The author frames the problem of climate change with the deaths and remembrances of her parents. The knowing and doing nothing, the stop-gap measures, the inevitable, all rolled into a powerful reminder that climate change is here and must be dealt with. I would give this a thumbs up for all to read. She shows that the glaciers that she studies are in real and present danger, and so are we.
While Glaciers Slept is a collection of beautiful lyrical personal essays that weave in the author’s life and story juxtaposed against an analysis of nature. Sometimes the author discusses the formation of glaciers and living creatures on glaciers. Othertimes, she compares the loss of her mother and father, grief and mourning to the loss of the natural world, for example the extraction of natural resources from Alaska. Within each essay, the author weaves in references to climate change and references small and big ways that climate change can be addressed. The essays are complex, yet accessible. This book would be a great way for students to understand their own places in the natural world and within the context of climate change.
This is a fabulous read. It will be remembered for a long time. The author frames the problem of climate change with the deaths and remembrances of her parents. The knowing and doing nothing, the stop-gap measures, the inevitable, all rolled into a powerful reminder that climate change is here and must be dealt with. I would give this a thumbs up for all to read. She shows that the glaciers that she studies are in real and present danger, and so are we.
While Glaciers Slept is a collection of beautiful lyrical personal essays that weave in the author’s life and story juxtaposed against an analysis of nature. Sometimes the author discusses the formation of glaciers and living creatures on glaciers. Othertimes, she compares the loss of her mother and father, grief and mourning to the loss of the natural world, for example the extraction of natural resources from Alaska. Within each essay, the author weaves in references to climate change and references small and big ways that climate change can be addressed. The essays are complex, yet accessible. This book would be a great way for students to understand their own places in the natural world and within the context of climate change.