Marlies
Super interessant boek over wat voor effect wij hebben op klimaatverandering.
Wat ik leuk vind aan dit specifieke boek, is dat het heel erg geschreven is vanuit het perspectief van de lezer/consument. Dit is wat jij kunt doen om een kleinere klimaat impact te hebben (itt het aan overheid/bedrijfsleven overlaten).
Wat Babette daarbij heel goed doet is niet alleen direct te meten impact (zoals microbeads in shampoo bijvoorbeeld momenteel een hot-topic is), maar dat bandenslijtage van autorijden een veeeeeel grotere impact heeft.
Babette schrijft daarnaast super positief. Niet; je mag niks meer doen en alles gaat toch slecht, maar ze maakt van je impact veranderen een spel/uitdaging.
Een aanrader voor iedereen die impact wil hebben op zijn/haar klimaatimpact.
Fun read. Interesting to gain insight into Tesla and SpaceX.
Looking forward to reading more books focusing on Elon Musk's way of thinking (thinking from first principles).
Why?
From Mission podcast newsletter. Interesting story, Carver is a botanist who invented plant-based fuel, amongst others.
“It's dark because you're trying too hard,” said Susila. “Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. ‘Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly—it was the best advice ever given me.
Well, now I'm going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi . . . Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe or Little Nell. And, of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the Clear Light.
So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. On tiptoes; and no luggage, not even a sponge bag. Completely unencumbered.”
why I chose this?
I've saw this book passing by in various recommendations and was intrigued: who isn't interested to learn what the best people have in common?
When I saw it laying around in a yard sale I had to pick it up.
what's it about?
Gladwell analyzes the systems and habits that “great” people have in common. As is probably in mind with a lot of people you hope for ‘easy' habits to pick up and copy. Contrary, Gladwell shows there's bigger mechanisms at play: the luck of when and where you were born, your cultural background, opportunities that have been given.
my opinion
At first I had a bit trouble getting through the book; each chapter generally focuses on a character, and then goes into the details of why that character had the successes it has had in it's life. Some of these backgrounds can be a bit dry.
However, towards the end Gladwell focuses in on cultural background and the difference between cultures which have a foodsystem around grains and cultures revolved around rice (pady's). It's super fascinating!
other recommendations
The last chapters on culture reminded me of the a-ha moments in Yoval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michael Pollan's Omnivore's dilemma.