Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd, thought I’d share some books about climate change and the biosphere I’ve learned from and enjoyed the last few years, including a few on my stack that I’m eager to get to. These are serious messages for serious times.
Recommended
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
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Elizabeth Rush, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
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David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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Mary Robinson, Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
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Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Peter Kalmus, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
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Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
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Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
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Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here
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Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
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Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Not discounting books by Bill McKibben and Al Gore, just been a while since major contributions.
On my stack
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Jake Bittle, The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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Dave Goulson, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
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Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Related perspective
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Fiction
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Richard Powers, The Overstory
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