Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By: Bill McKibben
4.01
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he br…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The human game is a team sport."-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"The human game is a team sport."-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight"-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight"-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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1. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became … read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
2. The Association of Small Bombs
By: Karan Mahajan
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2016 When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi scho… read more
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"Yes, madam,"-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"The roots of shame run deep."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"No action is safe from meaning."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"Silence is the small man’s only defense."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
3. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By: William McDonough , Michael Braungart
4.09
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to min… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
- science
"When you talk about “saving the planet"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about “saving"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
4. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
5. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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6. Pacific Edge (Three Californias Triptych, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, i… read more
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7. A Short History of Progress
By: Ronald Wright
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century--a time of unprecedented … read more
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8. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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9. American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
By: David Baron
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
"A timely tale of science and suspense." --Publishers Weekly(starred review) In the scorching summe… read more
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10. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
By: Al Gore
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in… read more
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11. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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- history
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
12. The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
By: Steven Novella
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadma… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
13. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
14. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
15. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
16. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
17. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
By: David Lipsky
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
18. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
By: Darrell Hartman
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- audiobook
19. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- science
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
By: Greta Thunberg
4.40
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more
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- history
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
21. Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.17
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGras… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
22. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By: Bill McKibben
4.01
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he br… read more
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- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- nature
- science
"The human game is a team sport."-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight"-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)"-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"Let's be, for a while, true optimists, and operate on the assumption that human beings are not grossly defective. Let's assume we're capable of acting together to do remarkable things."-Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
23. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
24. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
- audiobook
25. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
By: Yashica Dutt
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
26. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
27. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.18
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
28. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- audiobook
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
29. Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
By: Bill McGuire
4.31
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse ent… read more
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- history
- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
30. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
By: Michael E. Mann
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more
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- climate change
- economics
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31. Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food
By: Margot Anne Kelley
3.77
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
“Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impac… read more
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- nonfiction
"The current scene hasn't arisen by chance. Rather, there's "a definite strategy to it," according to John Altman, who began reviving the old farm David's Folly with his wife. Like Semler and Moffet, …"-Margot Anne Kelley, Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food
