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• The Uninhabitable Earth

  a Story of the Future

  Wallace-Wells, David

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  Available in both ebook and eaudiobook formats. A social science exploration of what the world could look like in a climate changed world.

• Green Earth

  Robinson, Kim Stanley, 1952-

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  The book that The Guardian called "the Brave New World of climate change" by Hugo and Nebula award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson. In 2008, Robinson was named by the Time Magazine as a "Hero of the Environment". The novel is set in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Derangement

  Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

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  Award winning Author Amitav Ghosh argues in this book that we are living through a 'Great Derangement" and that future generations will look back at previous generations and question how this was allowed to happen. Emotional engaged, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Sea in Flames

  the Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

  Safina, Carl, 1955-

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  A book exploring one of the worst ecological disasters of recent history that saw 4.9 million barrels of oil seep into the ocean. Evidence suggest that the Well was never sealed correctly, and continues to leak into the ocean to this day.

• The Madhouse Effect

  How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

  Mann, Michael E., 1965-

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  A comically dark book exploring how climate change denial is threatening the future of our planet.

• Half-earth

  Our Planet's Fight for Life

  Wilson, Edward O., 1929-2021

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  Written by Pulitzer Prize winning biologist Edward O. Wilson, this book has a utopian aspects that is charming. Here, Wilson argues that in order to prevent catastrophic climate change, human kind must share the Earth with nature. He puts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Changes Everything

  Capitalism Vs. the Climate

  Klein, Naomi, 1970-

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  Available in both ebook and eaudiobook format. A very informative and well researched foray into climate change. The central thesis of this book is that the current economic model is incompatible with the environment. Looking through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Light of the Stars

  Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

  Frank, Adam, 1962-

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  Available in both ebook and eaudiobook formats. This book, written by a professor of astrophysics, is a scientific exploration into what makes life possible, and in the case of climate change, the relationship between life on Earth and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Limits to Growth

  the 30-year Update

  Meadows, Donella H., 1941-2001

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  The book that argues that the current growth model of the dominant economic paradigm is not compatible with a finite ecological system.

• The Social Conquest of Earth

  Wilson, Edward O., 1929-2021

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  Edward O. Wilson's account on the rise of Homo Sapiens as the dominant species in the biosphere and how they changed the world around them as part of this.

• Being the Change

  Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

  Kalmus, Peter, 1974-

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  In the contemporary era with raising consciousness around climate change with the school strikes, Extinction Rebellion, read an individual story in combating climate change.

• On Fire

  the Burning Case for a Green New Deal

  Klein, Naomi

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  Naomi Klein makes the case for A Green New Deal and the future of combating climate change.