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Learn about climate change, air pollution, and fossil fuels this Earth Day in books recommended to you by climate activists. Human activity is causing the Earth’s climate to change faster than ever before. Already, global climate change has had a broad range of impacts on every part of the country. This includes many economic sectors that are expected to grow over the next decade.
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Understanding the changing climate is crucial to prepare for the future. The climate can be used to predict the amount of rain that will fall in the coming winter and how high sea levels will rise as a result of warmer seas—reading on to explore more best books on climate change from Penn Book.
Table of Contents
- 1 Best Books About Climate Change Required Reading
- 1.1 All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
- 1.2 Climate Action Challenge: A Proven Plan for Launching Your Eco-Initiative in 90 Days by Joan Gregerson
- 1.3 On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
- 1.4 The Hungry Tide: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
- 1.5 A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
- 1.6 As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- 1.7 Climate Action Challenge: A Proven Plan for Launching Your Eco-Initiative in 90 Days by Joan Gregerson
- 1.8 The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells
- 1.9 This Radical Land by Daegan Miller
- 1.10 Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, by Todd Miller
- 1.11 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert
- 1.12 Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
- 1.13 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
- 1.14 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein
- 1.15 Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transformation by Shalanda Baker
- 1.16 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates
- 1.17 New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 1.18 Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss
- 1.19 The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
- 1.20 Global Weirdness by Climate Central
- 1.21 Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken
- 1.22 Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall
- 2 Other Books on Climate Change Considered
- 3 Conclusion
Best Books About Climate Change Required Reading
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Alexandria Villasenor, a young climate activist, loves this poetry collection and essays by 60 prominent women climate activists. Villasenor, the founder of Earth Uprising International, said that All We Can Save shows us the power women have in creating solutions to the climate crisis. The inclusion of women in the climate movement makes them more inclusive and interconnected, and women do this by focusing on equity and justice.
Climate Action Challenge: A Proven Plan for Launching Your Eco-Initiative in 90 Days by Joan Gregerson
Derrick Mugisha, EARTHDAY.ORG’s Africa Regional Director, said that this succinct book provides a good starting point for anyone looking to learn more about how to combat climate change.
The book features advice from climate activists and highlights critical solutions. It also includes ways to solve the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis individually. Mugisha was selected as one of the 100 Young African Conservation Leaders. He is known for his efforts to promote forest biodiversity and plant 10,000 trees in Mpigi District.
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Carroll focuses on her chapter about faith. It helps trace why male centered Western Theological Practice, which tried to replace Mother Earth by a Father God, is now engaging in indigenous cosmologies that ‘living and holy Earth.’ Klein uses the receding Great Barrier Reef and persistent Pacific Northwest wildfires to show how the climate crisis is both a grave political problem and a spiritual and cultural challenge.
The Hungry Tide: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Karuna Singh, Asia Regional Director at EARTHDAY.ORG, recommends the Sundarbans areas as a region with a climate problem close to her heart. Ghosh’s book examines the region’s sinking of mudflats due to global warming and the sea level rise.
Singh explained that Singh’s story is so well crafted, it makes one notice the beauty around him. This is why I love it. Prose works can be a great way to bring attention to climate related issues without being didactic.
A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
“Though the book is intended for Evangelical Christians, it’s also a great resource for Jews and other faith communities. I appreciate the way this book combines science and faith, highlights the justice aspects of climate change, and leaves the reader with a sense of hope and a plan of action,” said Daniel Swartz, the executive director at the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
An evangelical climate scientist wrote the book with her husband, an Evangelical pastor. It explains how global warming is caused and what fundamental Christian values should be more involved in fighting it.
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
They also suffer from food shortages, insecurity, and other consequences of climate change and white supremacy. Gilio Whitaker examines the long and shameful shadows of capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, and other forms of colonialism through a lens she calls Indigenized environment justice.
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Through the 2016 Standing Rock protests, she frames the Native struggle for environmental justice. She highlights the heroic actions of these activists over the centuries and the urgent need to establish Native sovereignty.
Climate Action Challenge: A Proven Plan for Launching Your Eco-Initiative in 90 Days by Joan Gregerson
The Africa Regional Director Derrick Mugisha of EARTHDAY.ORG said this book provides a good starting point for anyone looking to combat climate change. The book features advice from climate activists and highlights key solutions.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells
In The uninhabitable Earth, Wallace Wells states that “This book is not about the science and effects of warming.” The Inhabitable Earth is visceral and alarming. It transforms scientific predictions into poetically recreated realities. David Wallace Wells paints grim portraits of how life will look at each level of global warming.
He foresees climate displacement, environmental crisis, food insecurity, and geopolitical warfare, as well as cascading natural catastrophes. Wallace Wells’ prediction of doom is terrifying, unmerciful, and entirely self inflicted. Consider The Uninhabitable Earth an impossible to look away from wake up call, because as Wallace Wells writes, “It is worse, much worse than you think.”
This Radical Land by Daegan Miller
A Natural History of Dissent
While most people believed that the natural world was an infinite resource, early environmentalists saw how humans could live with it and not exploit it. Daegan Miller outlines efforts to combine ideals of environmental justice, conservation, and sustainable development when American progress was seen through the lens of runaway expansion and extraction.
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, by Todd Miller
Miller takes readers (especially young readers) on a journey around the world to record the vast majority of people who have been displaced by climate catastrophe. World Bank predicts that more than one billion people will become refugees by 2050.
If our policymakers don’t change their course, these climate refugees will face the brutal, racist and lucrative surveillance states described with such clarity in Storming The Wall.
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor of The Sixth Extinction is back with another sobering look at our Anthropocene Epoch. This time, it’s not about the many calamities that lie ahead but rather the pioneering efforts of scientists to reverse the clock.
She turns her lens to human impact in nature, such as the infamous redirection and destruction of the Chicago River and the urgent need for more intervention to correct our mistakes. She travels worldwide, from the Great Lakes and the Great Barrier Reef, to meet scientists developing cutting edge technologies that turn carbon emissions into stone and shoot diamonds into the stratosphere.
Kolbert’s urgent and deeply researched text, which everyone has praised from Al Gore to Barack Obama, asks if ingenuity can overcome our hubris.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
Losing Earth covers the crucial decade of 1979 to 1989 and reveals the rise in political awareness regarding earth warming and the many failures of policymakers trying to address it. Rich shows in meticulous historical detail that policymakers supported profit thirsty corporations and launched a massive disinformation campaign.
This continues to influence our political lives today. Rich concludes his book on the lost decade of the fight against the climate crisis. However, he believes that there is still time to save the planet.
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
Even though everything seems to be falling apart around us, including eco damage and genetic engineering, virulent disease, end of cheap oil and water shortages, earth famines, and wars, we still have the power to make it work and create a world that works for our children’s kids and us. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight help to understand and heal our relationships to the world, each other, and our natural resources.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein
The renowned author of The Shock Doctrine writes that our economy is at war against many forms of life on earth in his radical study of the incompatibility of climate justice and capitalism. Klein exposes the devastating consequences of global deregulation capitalism. He argues that corporations are reaping hugely from the destruction of the planet.
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This is despite it being allowed to happen at an alarming pace by politicians and lobbyists. Klein insists that the only way forward is a structural overhaul of the global economic system. One that emphasizes social and environmental justice. This Changes Everything is a critical call to action, urging us to reorganize economic priorities before it’s too late.
Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transformation by Shalanda Baker
Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., the president and founder of Hip Hop Caucus, said, “I love this book because it breaks down how energy systems are too often centered in white, western, and male points of view and how energy justice is a racial justice.” This non-profit organization promotes political activism among young adults.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates
Via How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $310 million in 2019 to climate adaptation efforts that benefit farmlands all over the globe. Gates’s persuasive and witty book takes his environmental activism as a bridge further outlines an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
Gates draws on the data of policymakers, engineers, researchers, and other experts to advocate for scientific and personal solutions. These pages will inspire you to feel hope if you read them. Without hope, we won’t get anywhere.
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
This novel, which centers on a group of New Yorkers grieving and facing rising sea levels, reimagines New York 100 years later. Dominique Browning, director of Moms Clean Air Force, is a fan of Robinson’s romantic novel. This organization focuses on chemical toxicity and air pollution to ensure children’s health. Browning said that Robinson’s story is a combination of a worst-case scenario and the hope that even the most difficult times can bring out their best, a message that is all too relevant today.
Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss
It is a clear, urgent call to save 50 percent of the Earth’s land by 2050, saving millions of its species. Also, an honest assessment of the state of our planet and our role as conservationists from the award winning author of The Experience of Place.
The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
The Future We Choose is a cautionary but hopeful book by Christiana Figueres (who was in charge of negotiations for the United Nations under the historic Paris Agreement of 2015) about the changing climate around the world and the future of humanity.
Global Weirdness by Climate Central
Global Weirdness expands our understanding of climate change and equips us with the indisputable facts that will help us make informed decisions about the future for the planet and humanity.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken
Hawken highlights one hundred innovative technologies that can reduce the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This engaging essay, written by hundreds of experts, offers solutions. They include educating women from lower income countries and changing light bulbs in small scale lighting fixtures.
These proposed solutions will need to be implemented on a global level. However, Drawdown suggests the bold solutions it is possible to envision a better future.
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall
Have you ever had a heated argument with a climate denialist? Or wondered why policymakers are still not addressing the climate crisis despite all the scientific evidence? Don’t Even Think About it Marshall, founder of Climate Outreach and Information Network, examines how psychology prevents us from operating in our collective best interests. He argues that our natural sense of tribalism hinders us from working together.
Marshall also suggests a new language for outreach to the environmental movement, one that can win over even the most ardent denialists. This intelligent, practical book is a must have for your family’s next Thanksgiving.
Other Books on Climate Change Considered
- This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
- Losing Earth: A Recent History, by Nathaniel Rich
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, by Harriet A. Washington
- The Story of More by Hope Jahren
- Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet, by Jeanette Winter
- Rising by Elizabeth Rush
Conclusion
As the world heats up, extreme weather events become more frequent and severe. Sea levels rise, droughts last longer, and many animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. It is difficult to imagine what individuals can do to solve a problem this severe and significant.
The good news is that we are not the only ones doing this. Communities, cities, towns, businesses, schools, and faith groups are all taking action. Because our daily lives are at stake, we’re fighting as if it were.
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