REVIEW: Like so many people, I have sky-high anxiety already, given everything that’s going on. I didn’t think I could feel more worried about the world. Turns out, I can – and we must. Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, is the story of Greta Thunberg’s family, focusing on the harrowing years that preceded the Nobel Peace Prize nominee’s time in the spotlight as an environmental activist. It’s both an intimate personal story and a call to action. Its message is hard to ignore. “This story,” Greta’s mother, Malena Ernman writes, is “about the crisis that struck our family.” But, she adds, “above all it’s about the crisis that surrounds and affects us all. The one we humans have created through our way of life: beyond sustainability, divorced from nature, to which we all belong. “Some call it overconsumption, others call it a climate crisis. The vast majority seem to think this crisis is happening somewhere far away from here, and that it won’t affect us for a very long time yet. But that’s not true. Because it’s already here and it’s happening around us all the time, in so many different ways…. Read full this story
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