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…
Want to Read $ 13.99"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 culture, like mold, growing haphazardly and unsurely upon it."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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1. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- ecology
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2. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
By: Eduardo Kohn
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more
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- environment
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
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4. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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5. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
By: Paul Hawken
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
- New York Timesbestseller - The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on… read more
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6. 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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7. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
By: None
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
A witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, … read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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- climate change
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"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
11. Por qué las mujeres salvarán el planeta
By: Various
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
¿El empoderamiento de las mujeres puede transformar las posibilidades de conseguir la sostenibilida… read more
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12. 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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- audiobook
- ecology
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- sustainability
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- climate change
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"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
13. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- climate change
- environment
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14. 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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- climate change
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15. Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
By: Mark Lynas
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital accou… read more
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16. 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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- ecology
- history
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
17. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By: Jeff Goodell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more
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- climate change
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18. 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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"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
19. 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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20. Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop … read more
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21. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
By: Michael E. Mann
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more
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