We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

There are others who contest the overwhelming consensus among scientists that human activity is the primary cause of the planet's warming. But how much do those of us who acknowledge that climate change is a result of human activity really believe it? If we did, we would undoubtedly be motivated to act on our knowledge. Will future generations be able to discern between people who claimed to have accepted the science of global warming and those who maintained they did not, but who did not alter their way of life in response?

Jonathan Safran Foer tackles the primary worldwide predicament of our day in We Are the Weather in a startling, intensely intimate, and novel way. Saving the environment will need us to have a hard conversation with ourselves about our all-too-human unwillingness to forgo our comfort in the here and now in favor of a better future. He discloses that humans have transformed our planet into an animal farm, with disastrous results. Our house and way of life are only going to be saved by group effort. And it all begins with our breakfast choices, both made and made not.