some parts were kinda boring but overall pretty good

This rating is solely based on my own enjoyment of this anthology, and in no way reflects the quality of writing or material in these essays. Of course, given that this is a collection of New Yorker essays, the writing in all of them is great, they are well-researched, and generally have a nice balance between anecdotal and more fact-heavy. However, I'm not sure if this book is necessarily meant to be read cover to cover. It's extremely long, informationally dense at times, and at least in my own opinion, not the most engaging or captivating anthology. I saw this written in another review and found that I agree: the target audience for this novel is a little bit unclear. It's not fully fact-based, so it's not the most succinctly informative for someone looking to learn more about global warming, but I'm not sure if the perspectives are unique enough to present enough particularly new or groundbreaking information for someone who already has a baseline knowledge about global warming to be really worthwhile for someone only moderately interested in the topic. Overall, the novel seemed to lack a pointed purpose, other than organizing various climate-change-oriented essays into one place. Granted, this gripe can also be interpreted the other way, as the stories were so different from each other that they all offered a take on a different aspect of climate change and the way it affects society.
There's no doubt these stories are important, and I liked the fact that they presented perspectives on climate change other than the ones we hear the most about, like just the rise in temperature, the depletion of the ozone, etc. I feel that most of my complaints could be avoided by reading this book in conjunction with maybe something more light-hearted or engaging, and so that you're not reading it from cover to cover all at once.

• “If our way of life is ending nature, it is not too radical to talk about transforming our way of life.” 
• “Life is precarious, and you can crush it by holding on too tightly, or you can love it…Even in a world of dying, new lives co tiniest to be born.”
• [On managed retreat], “not everybody is going to live where they are now and continue their way of life, and that is a terrible, and emotional reality to face.”
• “Climate change is not so much a reduction in productivity as a redistribution, and it’s one in which the poorest people on earth get hit the hardest and the rich world benefits.” 

Some good stuff! But mostly this made me sad at how slow (but sweeping) the conversation on the climate crisis has evolved through the years. Like, goddamn, we needed to have such a more intense conversation in the 80s about the crisis because #ExxonKnew for decades! That shouldn't've been the beginning of the climate talks, it should have been the middle. I'm sure that a lot of these fire-based articles here will feel the same very soon. Australia, California, they've changed so much in fire regimes since this essay collection started collectin' pieces! Fuck! I think I need to read more specialized pieces, but this was good to catch up on -- see where the New Yorker is at generally.