We Are the Weather
Published in 2019, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast argues that individual action, particularly around food, matters in confronting climate change. Jonathan Safran Foer focuses on the environmental cost of animal agriculture and proposes a concrete change: avoiding animal products before dinner. Rather than offering a purely scientific report, he blends data with personal reflection, family memory, and moral questioning, exploring why people who accept the facts of climate change still struggle to act. The book wrestles with the gap between belief and behavior and the difficulty of caring about a crisis that feels distant. Foer presents his case as a series of arguments with himself as much as with the reader. The result is a short, accessible meditation on responsibility, habit, and collective change.
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An argument that individual dietary choices, especially eating less animal products, are central to fighting climate change.
He suggests avoiding animal products before dinner as a practical step against the climate impact of animal agriculture.
It blends data with personal reflection and moral questioning rather than reading as a purely scientific report.
We Are the Weather was written by Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2019 by Penguin Books, Limited.
We Are the Weather is 288 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, We Are the Weather takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
We Are the Weather is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
