11 best-selling environment books like The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

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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…

"[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

"[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

"[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

If you liked the environment plot in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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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

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • history
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"[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. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

By: Timothy Morton

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catas… 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. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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6. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

By: None

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environment… read more

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7. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

By: Timothy Morton

4.00

Format: 302 pages,

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a… read more

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8. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

By: Timothy Mitchell

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined … read more

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9. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

By: Roy Scranton

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too r… read more

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10. 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

Similar categories in Kōhei Saitō's Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
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11. Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion

By: Bruno Latour

3.82

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Delivered in 2013 in Edinburgh as part of the Gifford Lectures, these lectures attempt to decipher … read more

Similar categories in Bruno Latour's Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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12. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more

Similar categories in Matthias Schmelzer's The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
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13. The Second Body

By: Daisy Hildyard

3.63

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Hildyard's The Second Body book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • essays
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14. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

By: Tom Ireland

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation by Paul Hawken

15. Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

By: Paul Hawken

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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16. Skogslandet – En granskning

By: Lisa Röstlund

4.26

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

I skogslandet Sverige pågår en strid. Biologer larmar: de sista riktiga skogarna försvinner – snart… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Röstlund's Skogslandet – En granskning book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

By: Joel Wainwright

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more

Similar categories in Joel Wainwright's Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit

18. 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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  • ecology
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"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

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19. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

By: Kathryn Yusoff

4.04

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff.… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray

20. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller

21. The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

By: Adrienne Buller

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Buller's The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism book and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  • ecology
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"How can we, despite countless government pledges and programmes and a groundswell of civic society, remain quietly on course to sacrifice swathes of this planet's people and lifeforms to the demands …"

-Adrienne Buller, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

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