With his latest work, Jonathan Safran Foer presents us with a fait accompli: we couldn’t give a fig about the climate crisis. This is for a number of reasons which partially absolve us—as long as we realize why, now, and take decisive action as a consequence—which we won’t list here because Foer does it well enough in the book. Indeed, we highly recommend the book. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast confirms Foer as a gifted communicator, among a select few who put their pens and popularity at the service of the environment, and it’s a commitment which does him honor.
