Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop …
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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more
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"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
2. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- climate change
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
3. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
By: None
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
A witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, … read more
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4. 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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5. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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6. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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- history
- politics
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- climate change
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- nature
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8. 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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"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
9. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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- audiobook
10. 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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- ecology
- history
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- climate change
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"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
11. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
12. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By: Jeff Goodell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more
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- climate change
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13. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
14. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
By: Christiana Figueres
4.07
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more
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"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
15. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Naomi Klein
4.18
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more
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- climate change
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"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
16. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
17. 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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18. Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop … read more
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19. Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
By: Simon Clark
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and cre… read more
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20. 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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21. The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
By: Genevieve Guenther
4.55
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
An examination of the false and destructive rhetoric justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Langua… read more
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