Recommended Books

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.

In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change.

Helm shows why the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress is false, and he explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning.

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.

This book share the story of how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco to climate change. Merchants of Doubt rolls back the rug on this dark corner of American science. 

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act. This is their story, and ours.

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.

Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. 

Although it never plumbs the depths of worthy of a full understanding of the climate challenge, this book is well worth reading, and will elevate public awareness as fully as its own position on the Times best-seller list. Hopeful, coolly nerdy, and useful.

Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet. In this edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession. 

In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet.