Climate Change Reader

A selection of books discussing the history of climate change and possible ways to fight climate change.
Updated September 19, 2022
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein
Paper Book
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual...
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore
Paper Book
An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
Paper Book
Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestsellerThe World Is Flathas helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of...
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas
Paper Book
Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book...
Long emergency : Surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
James Howard Kunstler
Ebook
A "frightening and important" look at our unsustainable future (Time Out Chicago).   A controversial hit that has sparked debate among business leaders, environmentalists, and others, The Long Emergency is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we...
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Peter D. Ward
Paper Book
According to University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in the history of the world have been brought on by climate change--the same global warming that occurs today. In Under a Green Sky, he examines the causes of the Permian...

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