Our House is on Fire : : Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

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Call Number: 921 Thunberg, Greta, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Thunberg, Greta
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Translated from the Swedish.
Behind the curtain -- Burned-out people on a burned-out planet -- The ancient drama -- Imagine if life is for real and everything we do means something.
"When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination to understand the truth and generate change, they began to see the deep connections between their own suffering and the planet's. Written by a remarkable family and told through the voice of an iconoclastic mother, Our House Is On Fire is the story of how they fought their problems at home by taking global action. And it is the story of how Greta decided to go on strike from school, igniting a worldwide rebellion." -- From back cover.

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Some nice thoughts submitted by mbleed on July 27, 2020, 9:18am Slightly disjointed and unconnected, but good in their own small chunks

Inspiring account of how Greta's turned her mental health around with a single-minded focus on the environmental crisis submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 4, 2020, 10:28pm The Thunberg family account of Greta's Asperger’s diagnosis is praised by for its environmental message of hope. she pulled herself out of this depression by focusing on her worries about the climate. Thunberg’s accomplishments in surviving her devastating personal troubles is to be admired. I'm no climate change denier, but this book is a vehicle for Greta's extremist message and, if you'd differentiate the stake from the sizzle, it's just another testimony to the puffed up, adulatory coverage of her extremist rhetoric.