Jammin Jenny’s Comments (group member since May 09, 2018)

Jammin Jenny’s comments from the Challenge Corner group.

Can you guys think of anything I can put for this book in this challenge?

Isabel wrote: "Ethics at the End of the World
Scary, scary, scary! Less than three decades to clean up our mess or suffer under it without return.
Climate change is way to large to do it on your own but every in..."

Yes, less than 3 decades away now for some of the forecasted changes to occur if we don't slow down and implement more changes.

Isabel wrote: "Crisis Capitalism
It would surprise me, if capitalism would remain the same throughout climate change's development.
Since it encourages buying new and using more, many people already started reje..."

I agree.

Part 3: The Climate Kaleidoscope

This was an interesting part focusing more on the politics and ethics of environmental change. I thought it was interesting the author said that Putin actually has less motivation to implement any climate change because they'll be wealthier if they don't do anything. Also he spoke of Mad Max regions in the world which I found interesting.

Isabel wrote: "Heat Death
It's horrible to read about how terrible the planet's state is. As a former vegan and now vegetarian (and trying my best at the zero waste front), I've always cared a lot about Earth's w..."

I agree Isabel. It's frightening!

Part 2: Elements of Chaos: Heat Death

This part got more into the facts of some of the changes we are going through right now. Two of the facts that hit me the hardest were the increased prevalence of fires - especially with what happened recently in Australia - and the fact that <1% of the water on earth is available for human consumption. When I was in college I worked on a desalination project for the Department of the Interior, so after listening to this part I investigated what the world was doing in that regard, and invested in one of the companies doing something on that front.

I'll do it.

ETA: It's done - I put as many books as I could on there that we finished. Some of them have links to reviews, some don't. The currently open letters we need to finish books for are: D, J, K, O, X, Z

Will do! I'm excited!!

There were a couple of Jenny's playing quidditch so who knows ??

I'll play. I've played all the positions in prior match ups except Keeper and am willing to play wherever you need me!

Part 1: Cascades

I found this part very interesting. It spoke about the six prior extinction cycles and that all of them were caused by environmental warming (except for the dinosaurs). It also spoke about how intense storms are more intense now than they were in the past. They actually spoke about some severe weather in Ellicott City, Maryland, which I now about because I live about 3 hrs from there.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 464 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...



Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 286 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 286 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Object: Knot (in her hair)
Letter: K

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 384 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Bonus: 5 points
- Book that has 5 words in the title (any edition works) → 5 pts
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Cindee, Susan, Keri, - you all have at least one book on sheet ABC8 marked as finished but not yet posted in the review threads. Can you post on Tuesday the 19th? I should be finished my K book by then and if you can all post then we should be able to move on to ABC9 by the 20th.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 384 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Object: Zoophile
Letter: Z

Berra wrote: "Is anyone reading for K?"

Not yet. But I think I have a book that might work

- knot (in her hair)

I'll be done tomorrow.

All the letters on ABC8 are filled except K and Z.

ETA: I'm taking the Z word with Zoophile - a person that loves animals

Donna I'm putting another of your books on the ABC8 sheet. You haver a lot of books to post :)

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 338 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Object: Indian Signs
Letter: I


Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 162 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Object: Light
Letter: L


Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 282 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Object: Smoke
Letter: S


Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pages: 204 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Object: UFO
Letter: U