Recommended Reading

5 star choices (ranked)

1. Losing Earth: A Recent History 
1. Rich, Nathaniel
2. Already Extinct: A Parrhesiastic Statement 
1. Kyo, Minoru
3. The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
1. McKibben, Bill
4. The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 
1. Kunstler, James Howard
5. The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization 
1. Homer-Dixon, Thomas
6. A Short History of Progress 
1. Wright, Ronald
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 
1. Diamond, Jared
8. The Limits to Growth 
1. Meadows, Donella H.
9. Here On Earth: An Argument For Hope 
1. Flannery, Tim
10. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (fiction) 
1. Quinn, Daniel

additional choices, alphabetical by author

4 star choices

• The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth 
• Flannery, Tim
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America 
• Friedman, Thomas L.
• Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead 
• Greer, John Michael
• Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change 
• Hamilton, Clive
• The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality 
• Heinberg, Richard
• The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future? 
• Homer-Dixon, Thomas
• Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 
• Jensen, Derrick
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate 
• Klein, Naomi
• Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change 
• Kump, Lee R.
• Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 
• Lovelock, James E.
• Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change 
• Marshall, George
• Comfortably Unaware: Global Depletion and Food Responsibility... What You Choose to Eat Is Killing Our Planet 
• Oppenlander, Richard
• The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future 
• Oreskes, Naomi
• Green Earth (fiction: cli-fi) 
• Robinson, Kim Stanley
• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
• Scranton, Roy

3 star choices

• Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future 
• Alley, Richard B.
• A Passion for This Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature
• Benjamin, Michelle
• Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man 
• Boulter, Michael
• Building a Sustainable Society
• Brown, Lester R.
• The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations 
• Fagan, Brian M.
• Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley 
• Faris, Stephan
• Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis 
• Flannery, Tim
• The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World 
• Gilding, Paul
• Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit 
• Gore, Al
• Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis 
• Gore, Al
• The Assault on Reason 
• Gore, Al
• Affluenza: Reality Bites Back 
• Graaf, John De
• Carbon Shift 
• Homer-Dixon, Thomas
• The Battle For Paradise 
• Klein, Naomi
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 
• Kolbert, Elizabeth
• The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene 
• Lewis, Simon L.
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy 
• Macy, Joanna
• Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet 
• McKibben, Bill
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning 
• Monbiot, George
• Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge 
• Simpson, Jeffrey
• Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth 
• Wackernagel, Mathis
• Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand 
• Washington, Haydn
• Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? 
• Weisman, Alan
• The Future of Life 
• Wilson, Edward O.

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.