In an era of literature where it has become fashionable to make climate change a plot point, it is refreshing to read a book that is both emphatically beautiful at the line level and deeply insightful at an ecological level. Millet has spent decades immersed in environmental work with the Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona. We benefit from her experiences: anecdotes about heat-stricken flying foxes, passenger pigeons, ibex, pit ponies and predacious snails ground the work in earthly, high-stakes reality.
More from my review for the Scientific American here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-grieve-our-changing-planet/