Author Kate Marvel does a great job bringing the reader in and getting them hooked to her storytelling. And only she talking about climate change in global warming, but she leaves a lot of history and story behind each of her points and feelings. I really enjoyed the use of legend And other aspects to help get across her points.

The narration by Courtney Patterson excellently compliments, the storytelling vibe of the book. The book is written in a storytelling fashion, and Courtney does a great job creating a relationship with the reader, almost like a friendship through her narration.

Overall, I think Kate gets her point across about the hazards and what our future is going to look like with the current crisis that we are seeing, but she doesn’t in a very open and engaging way.

As someone with climate anxiety, this book was much needed and incredibly helpful to me. It's a great introduction to climate change and natural science that is easily digestible and entertaining, earning 4.5 stars!

It’s important to note that I have a degree in Sustainable Development and Environmental Studies. I’ve spent years studying this book’s topics and thus, I found nothing new in it— which is what I personally look for in a book on the climate crisis. The data, emotions, and solutions were all things vastly familiar, *to me*.
That being said, I think this book could prove important to those in the beginning stages of their climate journeys— especially the younger crowd.

However, it must be noted that I find a book on climate change that does not mention the planet-and-humanity-ending genocides in the Congo and Gaza to be completely disingenuous and thus I am sorely disappointed in this aspect.

I really enjoyed this book. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting. I expected an emotional response to climate change from an expert in the field. But I mostly got a scientific summary of current climate research and its limitations. I read repeatedly how we’re past the point of no return and what’s coming will be bad even if we changed our behavior today. But what I didn’t read was an emotional response from an individual. I didn’t hear the human perspective I was looking for. That being said, I did learn a lot and enjoyed a few of the anecdotes from her personal life where they were sprinkled in, few though they were. I do recommend this as an educational read, not as an emotional one.


So many thanks to NetGalley and HarperAudio for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. I learned a lot about and did some of my own grieving for the earth we are destroying. What an important book!

Am I becoming a nature reader? If so, it goes back to Rachel Carson and The Sea Around Us. It does seem as if many of my favorite reads of the last few years have been books about the natural world. Add this one to the list! Kate Marvel's emotional soapbox, Human Nature, is everything I want in a book - and the narration is perfect. I enjoyed hearing Marvel's rants, and her wonder and delight, her personal stories and scientific explanations. This is a book about feelings. And, really, feelings are what will save us. If we are to be saved. Because logic alone is not going to turn this boat around. But if enough people catch feelings (I think that is the term kids use these days), then maybe we will find the will to make some much-needed course corrections. Marvel reminds us we have made big changes in the past, we can do so again. Thank you to the author, narrator (excellent job!), publisher, and NetGalley for the audioARC.

Marvel knows her stuff. A climate scientist who has testified for congress, and was horrified by the experience, she approaches a book on climate change in a new and cathartic way. She does not make a case for the science or attempt to convince the reader, she knows her reader is already decently knowledgeable, instead Marvel chooses to approach climate change through the emotions of those living through a world that is changing. Marvel uses personal experience as well as nationally infamous events to anchor the work, allowing the reader to experience all nine emotions.

As I write this the “Big Beautiful Bill” was just passed by the US House and is on its way to the President’s desk. In this moment, the chapter I keep coming back to is anger. Marvel manages to capture the rage of a woman who is an expert in her field who is ignored and dismissed by leadership. Someone who is done explaining and hand holding and supporting and is just ready to throw down for what they believe in. The entire chapter oozes feminine rage, and I was there with her for every word. Let's go.

Later she finds less negative emotions, but right now I’m here for the rage. I hope I will be in a place to revisit this work when things calm down. If things calm down.

Excellent integration of the humans who study and contribute to the science behind climate change. The author brings her whole self to the work, which, I think, allows the story of the science to unfold more completely. Probably still written for "the choir" that already accepts that climate change is happening, but I think presents a "new" way of talking about the fact of it, that the science does elicit visceral, emotional response, and that it's OK to accept the humanness of that and not eschew it for the "purity" of science talk.

Written by a scientist, Human Nature: Nine Ways To Feel About Our Changing Planet, dives into climate change. Using climate models and science to explain what the causes behind climate changes are, Marvel shows just how important and relevant this topic is. A good mixture of history, why we cannot exactly predict the future and ways to decrease carbon output, I found I learned a lot!

Paired with different emotions, we are guided through the science and Marvel states a good argument for why we should all care and how we need to take action now, for a better future for our children.

The book isn’t all doom and gloom. I appreciate her hope at the end. A good read for those that want to better understand the science behind climate change.