Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It
By: Alice Mah
4.23
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As …
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1. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
2. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
4. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
5. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- nonfiction
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
6. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- ecology
"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
7. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)
By: Juno Dawson
3.84
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more
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8. 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
- nonfiction
- ecology
"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
9. Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It
By: Alice Mah
4.23
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As … read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
