13 must-read nonfiction books like Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt

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Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency

By: Jonathon Porritt

4.22

Format: None pages, Audiobook

‘Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we’re headed, but even …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Poor Cow

By: Nell Dunn

3.60

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, this novel tells the story of Joy living amongst the shiftless poor in Lon… read more

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2. Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

By: Tim Jackson

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global popula… read more

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3. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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4. Engleby

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, ha… read more

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5. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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6. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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7. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • audiobook
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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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  • science
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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9. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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  • nature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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10. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • science
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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11. 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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  • science
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
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12. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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13. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"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

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15. Dreamland

By: Rosa Rankin-Gee

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audiobook

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain tha… read more

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16. 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
  • 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

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17. 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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  • science
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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18. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

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19. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

By: Caroline Lucas

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

Cover of Post Growth: Life After Capitalism by Tim Jackson

20. Post Growth: Life After Capitalism

By: Tim Jackson

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

'Empowering and elegiac'Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now'Utterly inspiring'Caroline Lucas, M… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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21. Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency

By: Jonathon Porritt

4.22

Format: None pages, Audiobook

‘Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we’re headed, but even … read more

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11 Best audiobook books like Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Transform Your Habits

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Vaclav Smil

3.97

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8 best-selling history books like How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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