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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Recommended Reading List #1

Have Read

An Illustrated Short History of Progress. Ronald Wright.

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared Diamond.

Carbon Shift. Thomas Homer-Dixon.

The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future? Thomas Homer-Dixon.

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization. Thomas Homer-Dixon.

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. Tim Flannery.

Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope. Tim Flannery.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. James Howard Kunstler.

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. Naomi Oreskes.

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Richard Heinberg.

Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change. Clive Hamilton.

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization. Roy Scranton.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. Naomi Klein.

Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand. Haydn Washington and John Cook.

Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge. Jeffrey Simpson.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning. George Monbiot.

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. James Hansen.

Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change. Michael Mann and Lee R. Kump.

The Two Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Richard B. Alley.

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. Al Gore.

The Assault on Reason. Al Gore.

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Robert N. Proctor.

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Mathis Wackernagel.

The Sixth Extinction. Elizabeth Kolbert.

Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse and the Hard Future Ahead. John Michael Greer.


To Read

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future. Tim Flannery.

Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Tim Flannery.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. Mark Lynas.

Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. National Research Council.

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Michael Mann.

The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change. David Archer.

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. Fred Pearce.

Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Droughts, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future. Climate Central.

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System. Ian Angus.

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us. Christophe Bonneuil.

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. Clive Hamilton.

The Weather of the Future. Heidi Cullen.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change. Elizabeth Kolbert.

The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man. Michael Tennesen.

Global Catastrophic Risks. Nick Bostrom.

Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects. Vaclav Smil.

Climate Wars. Gwynne Dyer.

The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. James Gustave Speth.

Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy: How to Reduce the Threat of Dangerous Climate Change by Embracing Uncertainty and Failure. Robert Chris.

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life. Kari Marie Norgaard.

The Collapse of Complex Societies. Joseph Tainter.

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. William Catton.

The Arrogance of Humanism. David Ehrenfeld.

Creating A Climate For Change: Communicating Climate Change And Facilitating Social Change. Susanne C. Moser (Editor)

Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy. Richard Heinberg and David Fridley.

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