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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
This remarkable collection brings over sixty scientists, poets, philosophers, artists and writers—all female—together in a chorus of inspiring calls for addressing climate change. Includes Janine Benyus, Mary Oliver, Katharine Hayhoe, Naomi Klein and more.
Categories: Activism, Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Hope & Inspiration, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Having detailed the coming man-made climate disaster in her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert explores the costs of trying to repair the mess by more manipulation of Mother Nature. “By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic,” says the jacket.
Categories: Ethics and Morality, Science and Environment, Technology Solutions, z-Book
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By the founder of 350.org and dean of popular climate writing, this, his most recent book, offers us a perfect storm of the disasters that lie ahead if we don’t pay attention: artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, and climate meltdown. Read and tremble.
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Ethics and Morality, Science and Environment, Technology Solutions, z-Book
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
I loved this book for its utterly fresh angle on climate disaster as well as Bengal-born Ghosh’s quiet, erudite reflection on why it is so difficult for Americans even to conceive of the reality of what is facing us. It is devastatingly revelatory.
Categories: Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, History, z-Book
Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore
Truly one of my favorite people, Moore gave up an endowed chair in Moral Philosophy to combat climate change for the duration. Here she offers a luscious set of essays poignant and hefty, anguished and icy, passionate and inspiring. Read them and sing.
Categories: Activism, Ethics and Morality, Policy and Politics, Science and Environment, z-Book
The End of Nature
In this, the first book about climate change, McKibben argues that “Nature,” to which we have always been subordinate, has now become subordinate to us, and that we are not exercising this power wisely. The book paved the way for the term, “Anthropocene”.
Categories: Activism, Climate Change Impacts, Ethics and Morality, Nature, Science and Environment, z-Book
Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home
You don’t have to be a Catholic to love this book! Francis goes for broke, giving us the most comprehensive integration of climate science, Christian ethics, and broad social invocation that you will find anywhere. If you want to go big on climate, this is it.
Categories: Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Hope & Inspiration, Sustainability and Solutions, z-Book
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Economics, Ethics and Morality, Policy and Politics, z-Book
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Arguing that more than even a scientific or technical challenge, climate change is a moral challenge, and that moral arguments are a primary necessity. This staggering collection brings us Thomas Berry, Desmond Tutu, Sally McFague, Robin Kimmerer, Brian Doyle and dozens of others.
Categories: Activism, Climate Justice, Ethics and Morality, Policy and Politics, z-Book