 | Climate Is Just The Start Author: Loach, Mikaela | |
| Price: $13.49 | ||
Summary:
Mikaela Loach offers her urgent and inspiring message for kids who want to STOP the climate crisis and START building a better world for everyone. Using her own personal stories, she explains the climate crisis and its broader social implications through her activism journey. She writes about friends from around the world who are experiencing the worst of it today and about what they are doing to fight back.
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Booklist (+) (12/01/25)
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Booklist - 03/01/2025 *Starred Review* Loach, a Black, Jamaican-born, UK-based climate activist, offers encouragement and inspiring advice to young people on what they can do to help tackle the climate crisis. She explains how she initially went to medical school, but the plight of some friends around the world experiencing devastating habitat loss due to climate change caused her to change direction. She believes that, “If you are not moved by the world, you will not act to move the world.” The first step in fighting climate change, she says, “is working out how—and why—the world has these wounds in the first place” and explains the cause, attributing it to the use of fossil fuels and big oil companies. The book discusses overconsumption of natural resources with a focus on unrestrained capitalism, climate denial, climate delay, greenwashing, and environmental racism. Although Loach offers practical suggestions for combating climate change, her point is to encourage young people to seriously upend how they think of fighting climate change in a radical way. She advocates that our work on climate change “needs to go to the root of injustice, oppression, and the creation of the crisis, and tackle it there.” This book is full of rousing advice that will motivate and energize young climate activists. With poetry, infographics, glossary, and further resources (all not seen). Highly recommended for all. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
