Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
It was hard to push myself to finish reading this book, but I did so only because I don't like leaving things undone. The information in this book relating to the grand explosion of Mt Tambora is interesting in itself, and how it actually affected the world in terms of weather and how that weather, in turn, affected people and the choices they made. For example, the crazy weather influenced Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, into writing that book. There are plenty of other examples in the books and it all rather reminds me of the movie Forest Gump, wherein one man affected so many people and brought about so many goods all by being himself. The author tends to do that in regard to Mt Tambora - that because of Tambora's explosion, there as a domino effect throughout the world, which in turn helped bring about all these other things, like books, ships, political divisions, tyrants, artists, you name it.
However, though I'm not sure exactly how he comes to this conclusion (though he attempts to explain it in the book), the author goes on to intimate throughout the book that it is humankind who is at fault of "global warming"/"climate change". It makes no sense to me. First of all because I tend to agree with the honest climate experts that climate change is a millennia-long, needed pattern for Earth, and that man is not the one responsible for it (scientifically speaking).
Other than the author's strong "pushing" of this agenda of "climate change" where humans are the culprit, the book could have been more interesting. I'm glad I finished it. I would not recommend it, unless a person is directly interested in volcanoes and weather, and/or if a person is fully and blindly a believer in "climate change"/"global warming" and wants more excuses for how it's a "real" thing.
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