Human Nature:
nine ways to feel about our changing planet
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Human Nature:
nine ways to feel about our changing planet
Overview
A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet.
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it’s easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn’t just happening in those models. It’s happening here, to the only good planet in the universe. It’s happening to us. And she has feelings about that.
Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief — but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.
Hopeful, heartbreaking, and surprisingly funny, Human Nature is a vital, wondrous exploration of how it feels to live in a changing world.
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- Paperback
- 234mm x 153mm
- 304 pages
- 9781922585493
- AUD$36.99
- 29 July 2025
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can)
- Dunow, Carlson & Lerner
Praise
‘Scientist Kate Marvel has examined the data and read through the evidence of climate change. But Human Nature looks at what climate change feels like for humanity. In a combination of evidence and storytelling, Marvel brings forth the emotions of climate change with passion and clarity.’
‘Across nine chapters, Marvel draws you into an unapologetic and unflinching account of our climate: what has already happened, where we are now, and what sobering futures await us … and then to the hope and love that she cultivates nonetheless, this is a book steeped in emotion; a book that defiantly refuses to take an impartial, clinical view. Marvel wants us to feel … Marvel reminds us that the fight against climate change is as much about protecting the small, fragile corners of Earth that we love as it is about averting catastrophic collapse … I can’t imagine a better voice to listen to about our collective future.’
About the Author
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and one of the premier science communicators working today. A former cosmologist, Kate received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Scholar. She served on the chapter leadership team of the US Fifth National Climate Assessment, gave a TED talk, appeared on Meet the Press and The Ezra Klein Show, and testified before the US Congress. She has written for Scientific American, Nautilus magazine, and the On Being project.
