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…
Want to Read $ 3.99"[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
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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
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- ecology
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- politics
- sustainability
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- essays
- climate change
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- 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
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- climate change
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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
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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
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- climate change
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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
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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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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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- climate change
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- nature
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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
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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
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- climate change
- environment
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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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"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
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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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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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
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- climate change
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"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
