This is my new favorite book. I can’t stop recommending it to people. If you need to feel some hope about humanity, this is a great read. It’s a perfect combination of interesting (and funny) facts about history and deeply moving personal narrative, with some philosophical analysis thrown in there. I feel like if I read this book enough times, I would eventually come to understand the meaning of life. I listened to the audiobook with the author’s narration — I highly recommend this format, as it’s much more powerful hearing it in John’s voice. I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.