16 Best science books like Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi

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Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions

By: Akshat Rathi

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'An important read for anyone in need of optimism' Bill Gates 'Dazzling and deeply reported' Dav…

If you liked the science plot in Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Black Boy

By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

By: Marc Reisner

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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3. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

By: Daniel Ammann

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (includi… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
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4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • business
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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6. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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7. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

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9. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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10. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

By: James Davies

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

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11. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science
"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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12. The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

By: Scott Galloway

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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13. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

14. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

15. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

16. Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

By: Alex Edmans

3.96

Format: None pages, ebook

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2020! What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it's… read more

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  • economics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • business
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17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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18. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

By: Mariana Mazzucato

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

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19. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

By: Scott Patterson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr

20. Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

By: John Doerr

4.22

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

To solve the seemingly-insurmountable climate crisis, we have to take collective action, drive soci… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

21. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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22. Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliber… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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23. Economics for the Common Good

By: Jean Tirole

3.91

Format: 576 pages, ebook

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in soci… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson

24. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

By: Henry Sanderson

4.12

Format: 304 pages, ebook

'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science
Cover of Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life by Nicholas D. Kristof

25. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life

By: Nicholas D. Kristof

4.55

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

26. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

By: Ernest Scheyder

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more

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  • business
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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27. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi

28. Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions

By: Akshat Rathi

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'An important read for anyone in need of optimism' Bill Gates 'Dazzling and deeply reported' Dav… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

29. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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31. Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War

By: Tom Steyer

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer gives us a unique and unvarnished perspective on … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • science

21 Best politics books like Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi

Transform Your Habits

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Marc Reisner

4.53

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Javier Blas

4.34

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

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3.82

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They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

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