Books on combating climate change
It's the biggest challenge humanity faces.
These books speak to where we’re making progress, and they make some ambitious calls for what needs to be done—from infrastructure and investment to ideology and ethics.
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Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy
Rooted in the problem of climate change, this is an accessible approach to systems thinking, offering hope based in pragmatism and outcome-oriented approaches. As chair of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability, Dr. Wayne Visser's goal with this book is to help readers identify feel-good actions that won't accomplish much while better understanding the power they do have to make change.
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Hertsgaard gives readers an informative, well-researched look into the state of our planet that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive.
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Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
Shellenberger and Nordhaus have been called “ecomodernists” by the online magazine Slate for their unabashed enthusiasm for technological solutions to growing energy demands, running in opposition to traditional “environmentalist” calls for reducing energy consumption. Rather than hugging trees, these authors embrace nuclear energy, denser neighbourhoods, and market-based solutions to the climate crisis.
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Silent Seasons: Chasing Sustainability through the Law
The stories and lessons in this book will give you broader perspectives and new ways of thinking about sustainability, which will empower us all to move toward a more healthy and sustainable future together.
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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future
David Boyd thinks we have a shot. He looks back on the last couple of decades at the number of species we’ve pulled back from the brink of extinction, the sweeping changes we’ve made in environmental protection, toxic chemicals banned globally, advancements in renewable energy, and he sees the will and the potential to solve the problems we face. It’s going to be hard and it won’t happen without sacrifice and effort, but he argues that based on what we’ve achieved so far, we can win the fight against global climate change.
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How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
As we’ve observed recently, even huge disruptions to our commuting behaviours won’t make enough of a dent in carbon emissions to avoid climate catastrophe. In this book, journalist Jeff Goodell studies the world of geoengineering: technologies designed to impact the climate globally, including machines that suck carbon from the air or mirrors in the upper atmosphere that deflect sunlight from the earth. Goodell weighs the risks against the benefits and concludes that there’s merit to these marvelous machines.
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