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Anthropocene or Capitalocene?:
Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Elmar Altvater, Eileen C. Crist, Donna J. Haraway, Daniel Hartley, & 3 more
PM Press (June, 2016)
No Review

"The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?"

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.8 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-1629631486 SJ0 1/14/2017
Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
T. Anderson & D. Leal (Editors)
Palgrave Macmillan (February, 2015)
No Review

"This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides the next generation of environmental market ideas and the chapters are co-authored with young scholars and policy analysts who represent the next generation of environmental leaders."

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.4 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-1137448149 ?
Overheated:
How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back
Kate Aronoff
Bold Type Books (April 20, 2021)
No Review
Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic, a fellow at Type Media Center, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. A frequent contributor to The Intercept, her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Harper's, among other outlets. She was previously a writing fellow at In These Times and a contributing editor at Waging Nonviolence. Aronoff is the co-editor of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style and the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. She lives in Brooklyn." – Amazon biography

"This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.

"It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by decades of neoliberal policies and centuries of anti-democratic thinking. Since the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans have each granted enormous concessions to industries hell bent on maintaining business as usual. What's worse, policymakers have given oil and gas executives a seat at the table designing policies that should euthanize their business model.

"This approach, journalist Kate Aronoff makes clear, will only drive the planet further into emergency. Drawing on years of reporting, Aronoff lays out an alternative vision, detailing how democratic majorities can curb polluters' power; create millions of well-paid, union jobs; enact climate reparations; and transform the economy into a more leisurely and sustainable one. Our future will require a radical reimagining of politics—with the world at stake."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (46 ratings)
ISBN 978-1568589473 SJ3 363.7387
Depletion & Abundance:
Life on the New Home Front
Sharon Astyk
New Society Publishers (September, 2008)
No Review

Sharon Astyk has written four books on how to deal with shortages due to climate change and oil depletion by growing and canning local food, conserving energy, and other homespun methods. Based on my reading of the description and comments, this is the best of them.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (24 ratings)
ISBN 978-0865716148 ?
Environmental Gore:
A Constructive Response to Earth in the Balance
John A. Baden (ed.)
Pacific Research Institute (January, 1994)
No Review

An Amazon Top 100 reviewer note: "At the time this book was published in 1994, editor John A. Baden was chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment."

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.8 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-0936488783 SJ6 GE170.E575 1994 LM
Exxon:
The Road Not Taken
Neela Banerjee, John H Cushman Jr, David Hasemyer, & Lisa Song
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December, 2015)
No Review

"After eight months of investigation, InsideClimate News presents this history of Exxon's engagement with the emerging science of climate change. The story spans four decades, and is based on primary sources including internal company files never before seen, interviews with former company employees, and other evidence. It describes how Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and then pivoted to work at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (? ratings)
ISBN 978-1518718670 SJ0 1/14/2017
Blue Covenant:
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Maude Barlow
New York: The New Press, 2007
No Review

"A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (24 ratings)
ISBN 978-1-59558-186-0 SJ0 1/14/2017
The Work of Nature:
How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us
Yvonne Baskin
Abigail Rorer (Illus.)
Paul Ehrlich (Fwd.)
Harold A. Mooney & Jane Lubchenko (Pref.)
Covelo: Island Press, 1997
No Review

"We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout season after season and find renewed nourishment in the soil, that rivers can flow endlessly without running dry, that we can breathe a lifetime without depleting the air of oxygen.... What humans have not fully appreciated until recently is that these services are the work of nature, performed by the rich diversity of microbes, plants, and animals on the earth." --from The Work of NatureThe lavish array of organisms known as "biodiversity" is an intricately linked web that makes the earth a uniquely habitable planet. Yet pressures from human activities are destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. How many species can be lost before the ecological systems that nurture life begin to break down?In The Work of Nature, noted science writer Yvonne Baskin examines the threats posed to humans by the loss of biodiversity. She summarizes and explains key findings from the ecological sciences, highlighting examples from around the world where shifts in species have affected the provision of clean air, pure water, fertile soils, lush landscapes, and stable natural communities.As Baskin makes clear, biodiversity is much more than number of species -- it includes the complexity, richness, and abundance of nature at all levels, from the genes carried by local populations to the layout of communities and ecosystems across the landscape. Ecologists are increasingly aware that mankind's wanton destruction of living organisms -- the planet's work force -- threatens to erode our basic life support services. With uncommon grace and eloquence, Baskin demonstrates how and why that is so.Distilling and bringing to life the work of the world's leading ecologists, The Work of Nature is the first book of its kind to clearly explain the practical consequences of declining biodiversity on ecosystem health and function.

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.0 (6 ratings)
ISBN 978-1-55963-519-6 SJ6 GE195.B36 1997
Planning for Coastal Resilience:
Best Practices for Calamitous Times
Timothy Beatley
Island Press (July, 2009)
No Review

"Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure—an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water, and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Implicit in the notion is an emphasis on taking steps to build adaptive capacity, to be ready ahead of a crisis or disaster. It is anticipatory, conscious, and intentional in its outlook."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (17 ratings)
ISBN 978-1597265614 ?
GLOBAL SPIN
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Sharon Beder
Aatec Publications; Revised edition (March 2002)
No Review

"Rather than focus on direct assaults on the world's environment, Global Spin, which was already published in England last fall, is a well-documented survey of how corporations attempt to influence public opinion and garner political support when it comes to environmental issues." – David Rouse, Booklist

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-1931498081 SJ6 GE300 B43 1998 (1E)
CLIMATE PERIL:
The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis
John J. Berger
Paul & Anne Ehrlich (Intro.)
Northbrae Books (April, 2014)
No Review

"Based on the latest climate science, Climate Peril, winner of the 2016 International Book Awards in the Science category, reveals that the impacts of climate change on our health, economy, and environment are far worse—and more imminent—than many realize."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.9 (14 ratings)
ISBN 978-0985909246 SJ eBook
There Is No Planet B:
A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Mike Berners-Lee
Cambridge University Press (February 28, 2019)
No Review

"Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics — the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do? Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots — questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you — and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this — our only — planet."

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.7 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-1108439589 ?
The Unnatural World:
The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
David Biello
New York: Scribner (November 15, 2016)
No Review

"With the historical perspective of The Song of the Dodo and the urgency of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward saving the best home humanity is ever likely to have.

"What is the threat? It is us. In a time when a species dies out every ten minutes, when summers are getting hotter, winters colder, and oceans higher, some people still deny mankind's effect on the Earth. But all of our impacts on the planet have ushered in what qualifies as a new geologic epoch, thanks to global warming, mass extinction, and such technologies as nuclear weapons or plastics."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (44 ratings) Goodreads: 3.4 (113)
ISBN 978-1476743905 ?
Global Change in the Holocene
John Birks, Rick Battarbee, Anson Mackay, & Frank Oldfield
Routledge (August, 2003)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (? ratings)
ISBN 978-0340762233 SJ0 1/16/2017
The Great Displacement:
Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Jake Bittle
Simon & Schuster (February 21, 2023)
No Review
Jake Bittle is a journalist based in Brooklyn who covers climate change and energy. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and a number of other publications. He is also a contributing writer for Grist." – Amazon biography

"The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.

"Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.

"From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last few decades, the federal government has moved tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas.

"Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country's history. The Great Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (86 ratings) Goodreads: 4.3 (478)
ISBN 978-1982178253 ?
Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth:
The Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
Steve Bivans
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February, 2015)
No Review

Taking a unique approach, this author riffs on the environmental themes of Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy to inspire a greater regard for treating our Earth more carefully. He followed it later that year with four new volumes expanding his vision.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (23 ratings)
ISBN 978-1507856628 ?
Climate of Hope:
How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope
New York: St. Martin's Press (April 18, 2017)
No Review

"From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens—and even, someday, by Washington."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (128 ratings)
ISBN 978-1250142078 SJ0 5/14/2017
The Shock of the Anthropocene:
The Earth, History and Us
Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
London: Verso; Translation edition (January, 2016)
No Review

"The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (9 ratings)
ISBN 978-1784780791 ?
Scared To Death:
From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
Christopher Booker & Richard North
Bloomsbury Academic (March, 2008)
No Review

"From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird 'flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, 'scares' have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book for the first time tells the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. It analyses the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by the media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay a colossal price, which may run into billions or even hundreds of billions of pounds. The book culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what it shows has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through man-made global warming. In an epilogue the authors compare our credulity in falling for scares to mass-hysterias of previous ages such as the post-mediaeval 'witch craze', describing our time as a 'new age of superstition'." – publisher (HTML entities removed)

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (17 ratings)
ISBN 978-0826486141 ?
The Real Global Warming Disaster
Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
Christopher Booker
Continuum Pub Group (December, 2009)
No Review

"The book exposes the myth that the global warming theory is supported by a 'consensus of the world's top climate scientists'. It shows how the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is run by a small group of 'global warming' zealots, who have repeatedly rigged evidence to support their theory. But the politicians, pushed by the media, have so fallen for its propaganda that, short of dramatic change, our Western world now faces an unprecedented disaster." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.8 (37 ratings)
ISBN 978-1441110527 ?
Climate Change and Global Health (2nd ed.)
Colin D. Butler (Editor)
CABI (August, 2016)
No Review

"There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take. Now with added chapter updating key changes affecting climate change and health through 2015, culminating with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon's comment "What was once unthinkable is now unstoppable." Climate change, now clearly worsening, is triggering a powerful social and technological response. Will this response be sufficient to avert its potentially catastrophic "tertiary" health effects?"

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-1780648583 ?
Critical Condition:
Human Health and the Environment
Eric Chivian, Michael McCally, Howard Hu, & Andrew Haines (Editors)
The MIT Press (September, 1993)
No Review

"For the first time in human history we are altering the basic physiology of the planet, yet until now there has been no single source that summarizes the medical consequences of this environmental crisis for human beings. Critical Condition provides a comprehensive, easy-to-follow review of this most critical and yet most neglected subject in the environmental debate. It brings together the best medical information available about global environmental degradation, including the effects on human health of war and military preparation, global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, and loss of biodiversity — matters that are generally not addressed in the literature of environmental health.

"Underlying these contributions are three major themes: that the habitat is an important determinant of human health, that prevention of human illness must involve protection of the environment and preservation of ecosystems, and that well-informed physicians can and should communicate with the public and policy makers about environmental hazards."

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.6 (2 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262032124 ?
Paths to a Green World:
The Political Economy of the Global Environment (2nd ed.)
Jennifer Clapp & Peter Dauvergne
The MIT Press (March, 2011)
No Review

"This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262515825 ?
The Plundered Planet:
Why We Must—and How We Can—Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Paul Collier
Oxford University Press (May, 2010)
No Review
"Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. In addition to the award-winning The Bottom Billion, he is the author of Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places."

"Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources.

"Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

"Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.0 (68 ratings) Goodreads: 3.6 (411)
ISBN 978-0195395259 SJ0 2/08/2017
Drought:
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Ben Cook
Columbia University Press (April 30, 2019)
No Review

"Cook introduces readers to the hydroclimate and its components, explaining the global water cycle, the Earth's climate system, and the distribution of water resources. He discusses drought dynamics and variability over time, the climatological context and ecological effects, and environmental issues such as desertification, land degradation, and groundwater depletion. He also considers the socioeconomic impacts of drought and the role of drought risk management policy, especially in light of how climate change is expected to affect drought risk and severity. Cook gives special attention to paleoclimate and the role of drought in the crises of ancient civilizations. A scientifically comprehensive and approachable overview of water issues throughout the world, Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies."

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ISBN 978-0231176880 ?
The Coming Famine:
The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It
Julian Cribb
University of California Press (August, 2010)
No Review

"In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis—a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century—that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages—of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge—combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose, Cribb explains how the food system interacts with the environment and with armed conflict, poverty, and other societal factors. He shows how high food prices and regional shortages are already sending shockwaves into the international community. But, far from outlining a doomsday scenario, The Coming Famine offers a strong and positive call to action, exploring the greatest issue of our age and providing practical suggestions for addressing each of the major challenges it raises."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-0520260719 ?
Food or War:
Julian Cribb
Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (October 3, 2019)
No Review
"Julian Cribb FRSA FTSE is an Australian author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian newspaper, director of national awareness for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), editor of several newspapers, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and ten books. He has received thirty-two awards for journalism. His previous books include The Coming Famine (2010), Poisoned Planet (2014), and Surviving the 21st Century (2017). As a science writer and a grandparent, Julian Cribb is deeply concerned at the existential emergency facing humanity, the mounting scientific evidence for it and the deficit of clear thinking about how to overcome it."

"Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to war. But it also presents us with spectacular opportunities for fresh human creativity and technological prowess. Julian Cribb describes a new food system capable of meeting our global needs on this hot and overcrowded planet. This book is for anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet. It is not just timely - its message is of the greatest urgency. Audiences include consumers, 'foodies', policymakers, researchers, cooks, chefs and farmers. Indeed, anyone who cares about their food, where it comes from and what it means for them, their children and grandchildren."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (101 ratings)
ISBN 978-1108712903 ?
Extinction Embracing Us:
The Curse of Unlimited Growth
William Dixon
Independently published (July 5, 2018)
No Review

"Unlimited growth is the engine that will, if unchecked, carry us to extinction, along with most existing species on Earth. Capitalism is unlimited growth. It starts at the top, with the wealthy, forever growing their wealth, at the cost of the rest of life on the planet. All Western societies are firmly convinced that growth, like change, is only good; this outlook is fomented and encouraged by the wealthy, who through unlimited growths derive their growing profits."

Rating by Amazon customers: 2.6 (5 ratings)
ISBN 978-1973415275 ?
Climate Change: (2nd ed.)
What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Joseph F.C. DiMento & Pamela Doughman (Editors)
The MIT Press (March, 2014)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.0 (2 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262525879 ?
CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORLD FOOD SECURITY
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Oxford, UK, July 11-15, 1993
Thomas E. Dowling (editor)
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, December 1995
No Review

"This book is a product of the Oxford Environment Conference. It takes the essential questions of sustainability as a starting point to focus on present food security and its future prospects in the face of climate change. Why is this book important? First, I believe our goals to end hunger are under threat. We know what to do in many respects, but fail to generate the finances and political will to change the structures that thrive on poverty. Second, I believe concern about the environment has become dangerously separated from the fundamental issues of human deprivation. Third, I believe climate change is a serious threat and I am dismayed at the way nations dither over how to control greenhouse gas emissions and mechanisms to meet the challenge of adverse climate impacts."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 3-540-60562-2 SJ8 QC981.8.C5C5145
High Tide on Main Street:
Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
John Englander
The Science Bookshelf (October, 2012)
My Review

John Englander is an oceanographer with expeditions under the North Polar Cap, deep dives in research submarines, and visits to Greenland and Antarctica to his credit. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, and of The Explorers Club. He is the Special Advisor on Climate to Friends of the United Nations, and he holds memberships in the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Marine Technology Society.

The first five chapters of this book are a review of the history and science of trends in global temperature and sea-level rise. In Chapter 6, Englander looks at the present and near future of our world, showing by means of model results how sea levels are likely to rise and what's likely to be the result. Estimates for the total rise by 2100 vary widely, from 1 foot to 7 feet (and that outcome depends on how humanity reacts during the intervening years.) But in the present we know that some significant rise is inevitable, and some cities and towns already suffer intermittent flooding, while some former coastal towns are already permanently under water. Examples of the latter are Sharps Island and Holland Island, both in Chesapeake Bay. They were drowned in 1962 and 2010, respectively. The waters are coming; how far and how fast they come depends on what we do in the future.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (126 ratings)
ISBN 978-0615637952 ?
Moving to Higher Ground:
Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward
John Englander
Senator Angus King (Foreword)
Sir David King (Afterword)
The Science Bookshelf (April 6, 2021)
No Review

"Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and…

  • Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans — and how soon our shorelines will go underwater…
  • Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more than 10,000 coastal communities as soon as 2050, both in the U.S. and around the world.
Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (97 ratings)
ISBN 978-1733499903 ?
Changing Planet, Changing Health
How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About It
Paul R. Epstein, MD & Dan Ferber
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011
My Review

Dr. Epstein (1943-2011) was trained in public health, and had a long career exploring the connections between disease and climate. Here he explains what he learned.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (13 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-520-26909-5 ?
FORECAST
The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley
Stephan Faris
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2009
My Review

And lest anyone doubt that climate change is having serious impacts today, journalist Stephan Faris corrects that mistake in this account of his own travels in regions now affected, from Darfur in Sudan to Key West in Florida.

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.8 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6 ?
Emerald Cities:
Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
Joan Fitzgerald
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (? ratings)
ISBN 978-0-19-538276-1 ?
NOW OR NEVER
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Tim Flannery
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009
My Review

With his unique Aussie point of view, Tim Flannery shows us a few possibilities for helping save the climate while improving the bottom line.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (9 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-8021-4898-1 ?
A Hot Mess:
How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Our World
Jeff Fleischer
Zest Books ™ (November 2, 2021)
No Review
Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, editor, and journalist. He is the author of A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Our World (Zest Books, 2021), Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections (Zest Books, 2020 and 2016), Rockin' the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries (Zest Books, 2015) and The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias (Fall River Press, 2011). His fiction has appeared in more than seventy publications including The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, The Saturday Evening Post, and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum. He has a master's in magazine journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor's in both journalism and history from Indiana University." – Amazon biography

"We already know what climate change is and many of us understand the human causes. But what will climate change do to our world? Who will be affected (spoiler: all of us!) and how will our lives change in the future? Topics include sea levels, extreme weather, drought, animal and plant extinction, and human and animal migration. Drawing on real-life situations and stories, journalist Jeff Fleischer takes an informed, approachable look at how our world will likely change as a result of our actions, including suggestions on what we can still do to slow down these unprecedented effects."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-1541597761 ?
Windfall:
The Booming Business of Global Warming
McKenzie Funk
Penguin Press (January, 2014)
No Review

"Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these forces a potential windfall.

"Funk visits the front lines of the melt, the drought, and the deluge to make a human accounting of the booming business of global warming. By letting climate change continue unchecked, we are choosing to adapt to a warming world. Containing the resulting surge will be big business; some will benefit, but much of the planet will suffer. McKenzie Funk has investigated both sides, and what he has found will shock us all."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (85 ratings)
ISBN 978-1594204012 ?
Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities:
Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development
Adriana Galderisi & Angela Colucci
Elsevier (August 2, 2018)
No Review

"Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development merges a scientific approach with a pragmatic one. Through a case study approach, the Authors explore strengths and weaknesses of institutional and informal practices to foreshadow innovative paths for an adaptive process of urban governance in the face of climate change. The book guides the reader along new governance paths, characterized by continuous learning and close cooperation and communication among different actors and stakeholders and, in so doing, helps them to overcome current 'siloed' approaches to climate issues."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-0128114773 ?
The Geography of Risk:
Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts
Gilbert M. Gaul
Sarah Crichton Books; Illustrated edition (September, 2019)
No Review
Gilbert M. Gaul has twice won the Pulitzer Prize and has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer four other times. For more than thirty-five years, he worked as an investigative journalist for The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other newspapers. He has reported on non-profit organizations, the business of college sports, homeland security, the black market for prescription drugs, and problems in the Medicare program. His books include Giant Steps, Free Ride (with Neill A. Borowski), and Billion-Dollar Ball. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Ferris Fellow at Princeton University. Gaul lives in New Jersey." – Amazon biography

"This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms?

"Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm's way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won't be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. And they have been encouraged to do so by what Gilbert M. Gaul reveals in The Geography of Risk to be a confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance that shift the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk.

"These federal incentives, Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels. We have become responsible for a shocking array of coastal amenities: new roads, bridges, buildings, streetlights, tennis courts, marinas, gazebos, and even spoiled food after hurricanes. The Geography of Risk will forever change the way you think about the coasts, from the clash between economic interests and nature, to the heated politics of regulators and developers."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.7 (75 ratings)
ISBN 978-0374160807 ?
Stung!
On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
Lisa-ann Gershwin
Sylvia Earle (Fwd.)
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, May 2013
My Review

"Read this book! You know that the oceans are in trouble, but this is the most comprehensive and clear explanation of why. Stung! is more than just a book about jellyfish; it is undoubtedly one of the best books detailing the stresses on our ocean ecosystems. It is a much needed and spectacular achievement." – Paul Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (38 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-226-02010-5 ?
The Great Derangement:
Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, September 2016
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (121 ratings)
ISBN 978-0226323039 ?
Big Coal:
The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Jeff Goodell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, June 2006
My Review

"In this penetrating analysis, Goodell debunks the faulty assumptions underlying coal's revival and shatters the myth of cheap coal energy. In a compelling blend of hard-hitting investigative reporting, history, and industry assessment, Goodell illuminates the stark economic imperatives America faces and the collusion of business and politics — what is meant by "big coal" — that have set us on the dangerous course toward reliance on this energy source." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.9 (58 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-618-31940-4 ?
The Water Will Come:
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, November 2017
My Review

Beginning in Miami, Goodell takes us on a tour of places around the world that are threatened by the rising seas — from the U.S. naval bases at Norfolk in Virginia and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and seacoast cities and towns from Alaska to Venice, Italy. Some of these, like Miami, are swamped every October, when the king tide comes in. Streets flood hubcap-deep, often with polluted water. Sea water contaminates local groundwater supplies and corrodes concrete foundations. The regular flooding also tends to "corrode" property values. Elsewhere, it washes shorelines away, along with the houses on them. The good news is that many localities, even in Florida, are beginning to fight back. But efforts are hugely expensive, and the water is likely to overtake them in the end.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.9 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-316-26024-4 ?
Climate Change and the Energy Problem:
Physical Science and Economics Perspective (2nd ed.)
David L Goodstein & Michael D Intriligator
World Scientific Publishing Company (May 20, 2017)
No Review

Amazon customer review by Joseph L. Bast

Rating by Amazon customers: 1.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-9813208346 ?
OUR CHOICE
A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
Emmaus, PA: Rodale, November 2009
My Review

Al Gore's third book on the climate crisis is all about the choices we face, and the options we have. I like everything about it except its treatment of nuclear power, which I judge too pessimistic.

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.7 (101 ratings)
ISBN 978-1-59486-734-7 ?
Outside the Green Box:
Rethinking Sustainable Development
Steve Goreham
New Lenox, IL: New Lenox Books (May 1, 2017)
No Review

"Society and business should adopt a policy that is sensibly green, continuing to reduce air and water pollution, but at other policies aimed at stopping global warming and halting hydrocarbon use. These policies do little for Earth's environment." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.7 (47 ratings)
ISBN 978-0982499641 ?
The Wealth of Nature:
Economics as if Survival Mattered
John Michael Greer
New Society Publishers (May, 2011)
No Review

"The Wealth of Nature proposes a new model of economics based on the integral value of ecology. Building on the foundations of E. F. Schumacher's revolutionary "economics as if people mattered," this book examines the true cost of confusing money with wealth. By analyzing the mistakes of contemporary economics, it shows how an economy centered on natural capital—the raw materials that support human life—can move our society toward a more productive relationship with the planet that sustains us all."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (29 ratings)
ISBN 978-0865716735 ?
OVERHEATED
The Human Cost of Climate Change
Andrew T. Guzman
Oxford University Press, February 2013
No Review

"Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.0 (12 ratings)
ISBN 978-0199933877 ?
Economics and Management of Climate Change:
Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation
Bernd Hansjürgens & Ralf Antes (Editors)
Springer (July, 2008)
No Review

"Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and business, this book describes, analyses and evaluates climate change risks and responses of societies and companies. The book contributes to the question of how climate change can be mitigated by discussing efficient and effective design of mitigation measures, in particular emissions trading and clean development mechanism (CDM). Placing special emphasis on the impact of climate change risks on business, the book investigates in which way selected sectors of the economy are affected and what measures they can undertake to adapt to climate change risks."

Rating by Amazon customers: 1.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-0387773520 ?
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (rev. ed.)
The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Thom Hartmann
Neale Donald Walsch (Afterword)
Harmony (April, 2004)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (145 ratings)
ISBN 978-1400051571 SJ0 6/22/2018
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change
Dieter Helm & Cameron Hepburn
Oxford University Press (February, 2010)
No Review

"The volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at Copenhagen and beyond. In addition to reviewing the main issues discussed above, a number of the articles question the basis of much of the climate change consensus, and debate the Stern Report's main findings." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-0199573288 ?
Economic Risks of Climate Change:
An American Prospectus
Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp, & Kate Larsen
Columbia University Press (August, 2015)
No Review

"This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project. With new contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, and Nicholas Stern and Bob Ward, as well as a foreword from Risky Business cochairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer, the book speaks to scientists, researchers, scholars, activists, and policy makers. It depicts the distribution of escalating climate-change risk across the country and assesses its effects on aspects of the economy as varied as hurricane damages and violent crime."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (2 ratings)
ISBN 978-0231174565 ?
Prosperity Without Growth:
Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow (2nd Ed.)
Tim Jackson
Routledge (December, 2016)
No Review

"The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson's piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions.

"This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a 'post-growth' economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability.

Seven years after it was first published, Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe, but an essential vision of social progress in a post-crisis world. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (44 ratings)
ISBN 978-1138935402 ?
Climate Change and Society:
Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
William W. Kellogg, Robert Schware
Westview Press (January 1981)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-0865311800 ?
FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
New York: Bloomsbury, December 2006
My Review

Ms. Kolbert covers the big picture of climate change well, including the political aspects. But what makes her book memorable is the on-scene accounts of how the changes are affecting local people in places like Holland and Alaska.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (133 ratings)
ISBN 978-1-59691-125-3 ?
FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE
Man, Nature, and Climate Change (2nd ed.)
Elizabeth Kolbert
New York: Bloomsbury, February 2015
No Review

"Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She'll add a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus she'll add three new chapters—on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral—making it, again, a must-read for our moment." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (16 ratings)
ISBN 978-1620409886 ?
Enviromedics:
The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health
Jay Lemery & Paul Auerbach
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (October 20, 2017)
No Review

"Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (20 ratings)
ISBN 978-1442243187 ?
The Winds of Change:
Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
Eugene Linden
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006
My Review

Veteran journalist Linden takes a unique approach: he treats climate change as the criminal destroyer of civilizations, undergoing trial for which he is the prosecuting attorney.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (27 ratings)
ISBN 978-684-86352-8 ?
Fire and Flood:
A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
Eugene Linden
Penguin Press (April 5, 2022)
No Review
"Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and writer on science, nature, and the environment. He is the author of nine books of nonfiction and one novel. His previous book on climate change, The Winds of Change, explores the connection between climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations, and was awarded a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. For many years, Linden wrote about nature and global environmental issues for Time, where he garnered several awards including the American Geophysical Union's Walter Sullivan Award."

"From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe.

"Eugene Linden wrote his first story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988; it was just the beginning of his investigative work, exploring all ramifications of this impending disaster. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have confused the public's mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff's edge is now within view.

"Starting with the 1980s, Linden tells the story, decade by decade, by looking at four clocks that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag further still; and, perhaps most important, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows how devilishly effective moneyed climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain but future disaster, but addressing it means losing present-tense profit, capitalism's response has been sadly predictable.

"Now, however, the seasons of fire and flood have crossed the threshold into plain view. Linden focuses on the insurance industry as one loud canary in the coal mine: fire and flood zones in Florida and California, among other regions, are now seeing what many call 'climate redlining.' The whole system is teetering on the brink, and the odds of another housing collapse, for starters, are much higher than most people understand. There is a path back from the cliff, but we must pick up the pace. Fire and Flood shows us why, and how."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.5 (18 ratings) Goodreads: 4.2 (127)
ISBN 978-1984882240 ?
After Us the Deluge
The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels
Kadir van Lohuizen
Lannoo Publishers (April 30, 2021)
No Review
Kadir van Lohuizen (Netherlands, 1963) has documented various conflicts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, but he is best known for his long-term photo projects: the seven world rivers, the consequences of rising sea levels, the diamond industry, migration in North and South America, and the way six megacities deal with waste. He has won numerous prizes and awards in photojournalism and is co-founder of the photo agency NOOR Images. In 2000 and 2002 he was a member of the jury for the World Press Photo competition, and until recently he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the World Press Photo Foundation. Van Lohuizen lectures, teaches, and lives in Amsterdam." – Amazon biography

"In After Us The Deluge, Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, co-founder of the photo agency NOOR Images, shows the consequences of rising sea levels for mankind. He traveled to six different regions in the world (Greenland, US, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, UK, and the Pacific) and captured the effects of global warming. The resulting photo essay is thought-provoking, illuminating, and aesthetically impactful. Each chapter includes a contribution from a local expert that addresses the specific problems in their region."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.8 (6 ratings)
ISBN 978-9401473590 ?
The Skeptical Environmentalist:
Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjorn Lomborg
Cambridge University Press (September, 2001)
No Review

"Bjorn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues that feature prominently in headline news around the world, including pollution, biodiversity, fear of chemicals, and the greenhouse effect, and documents that the world has actually improved. He supports his arguments with over 2500 footnotes, allowing readers to check his sources. Lomborg criticizes the way many environmental organizations make selective and misleading use of scientific evidence and argues that we are making decisions about the use of our limited resources based on inaccurate or incomplete information. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, he stresses the need for clear-headed prioritization of resources to tackle real, not imagined, problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan evaluation that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favored by campaign groups and the media. Bjorn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. When he started to investigate the statistics behind the current gloomy view of the environment, he was genuinely surprised. He published four lengthy articles in the leading Danish newspaper, including statistics documenting an ever-improving world, and unleashed the biggest post-war debate with more than 400 articles in all the major papers. Since then, Lomborg has been a frequent participant in the European debate on environmentalism on television, radio, and in newspapers."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (467 ratings)
ISBN 978-0521010689 ?
Cool It:
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg
Vintage; Media tie-in edition (October, 2010)
No Review

"Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (89 ratings)
ISBN 978-0307741103 ?
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
Copenhagen Consensus Center (March, 2014)
No Review

"The world faces myriad challenges yet - we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21 st Century, how do we deal with natural disasters, tackle global warming, achieve better nutrition, educate children...and address countless other urgent global issues? If you want to change the world, this inspiring and entertaining book is for you. Bjorn Lomborg presents smart solutions to twelve global problems, and shows how we could spend $75 billion to produce the most benefit and prioritize those problems. Featuring the cutting edge research of more than sixty eminent economists, including several Nobel Laureates, produced for the Copenhagen Consensus, How to spend 75 billion to make the world a better place (sic) will inform, enlighten and motivate actions to make our world a better place."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (164 ratings)
ISBN 978-1940003177 ?
False Alarm:
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books; Illustrated edition (July 14, 2020)
No Review

"Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.

"Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.

"False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong — and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.7 (763 ratings)
ISBN 978-1541647466 ?
Best Things First:
The 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises
Bjorn Lomborg
Copenhagen Consensus Center (May 8, 2023)
No Review
"Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is an academic and the author of the best-selling The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He challenges mainstream concerns about development and the environment and points out that we need to focus our limited resources and attention on the smartest solutions first. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center which brings together top economists, including seven Nobel Laureates, to set data-driven priorities for the world."

"In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. If you want to make the world better, Best Things First is the book to read.

"World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030. The goals literally promise everything, like eradicating poverty, hunger and disease; stopping war and climate change, ending corruption, fixing education along with countless other promises. This year, the world is at halftime for its promises, but nowhere near halfway. Together with more than a hundred of the world's top economists, Bjorn Lomborg has worked for years to identify the world's best solutions. Based on 12 new, peer-reviewed papers, forthcoming in Cambridge University Press's Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, this book highlights the world's best policies.

"Some things are difficult to fix, cost a lot, and help little. Other problems we know how to fix, at low cost, with remarkable outcomes. We should do the smart things first.

"Governments and philanthropists should focus on these 12 smartest things. Fix tuberculosis, malaria, and chronic disease, tackle malnutrition, improve education, increase trade, implement e-procurement, and secure land tenure. This will improve the world amazingly. The cost is $35 billion a year. The benefits include saving 4.2 million lives each year and generating $1.1 trillion more for the world's poor.

"We can definitely afford it: The cost of $35 billion is equivalent to the increase in annual global spending on cosmetics over the last two years. This is likely the best thing the world can do this decade."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (124 ratings) Goodreads: 3.9 (55)
ISBN 978-Copenhagen Consensus Center (May 8, 2023) ?
Global Climate Change and Human Health:
From Science To Practice
George Luber & Jay Lemery (editors)
Jossey-Bass (November, 2015)
No Review

"Global Climate Change and Human Health examines the environmental crisis from a public health and clinical health perspective, giving students and clinicians the information they need to prepare for the future of health care."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (3 ratings)
ISBN 978-1118505571 ?
Six Degrees:
Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas
National Geographic (October, 2008)
No Review

"Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (78 ratings)
ISBN 978-1426203855 SJ3 551.6 Lynas
Our Final Warning:
Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
Mark Lynas
Fourth Estate (June 30, 2020)
No Review
"Mark Lynas is an activist, journalist and traveller. He was editor of the website www.oneworld.net and has made many appearances in the press and TV as a commentator on environmental issues. He is the author of High Tide and Six Degrees."

"Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse.

"We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.

"At one degree — the world we are already living in — vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth.

"These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity's control.

"This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (234 ratings) Goodreads: 4.2 (440)
ISBN 978-0008308551 ?
Social Vulnerability and Climate Change:
Synthesis of Literature
Kathy Lynn
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February, 2015)
No Review

"Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-1505925326 ?
The Crash Course:
The Unsustainable Future of our Economy, Energy, and Environment
Chris Martenson
Wiley (March, 2011)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (136 ratings)
ISBN 978-0470927649 SJ eBook
Adapting to a Changing Environment:
Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change
Tim R. McClanahan & Joshua Cinner
New York: Penguin Books, March 2012
No Review

"Providing an up-to-date and original synthesis of environmental stress, natural resources, and the socioeconomics of climate change, Adapting to a Changing Environment develops a framework to provide governments, scientists, managers, and donors with critical information about local context, encouraging the implementation of nuanced actions that reflect local conditions." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-0199754489 ?
A Guide to the End of the World:
Everything You Never Wanted to Know
Bill McGuire
Oxford University Press (August, 2002)
No Review

"A Guide to the End of the World looks at the frightful prospects that await us in the 21st century and beyond."

I haven't read this book, but based on the cover, the publisher's blurb, and the customer reviews I'd call it overly alarming — even if it is from OUP.

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.1 (7 ratings)
ISBN 978-0192802972 ?
Deep Economy:
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben
New York: Times Books (March, 2007)
No Review

"In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (110 ratings)
ISBN 978-0805076264 SJ0 6/22/2018
Eaarth:
Making Life on a Tough New Planet
Bill McKibben
New York: Times Books, April 2010
My Review

A pioneer of the struggle to make the world aware of what impends for its future climate, Bill McKibben now argues that the die is cast: the familiar world we know is beyond recall, and we must learn to live on a different one.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.2 (178 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-8050-9056-7 SJ3 304.2 McKibbin
Climate Change and the Health of Nations:
Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
Anthony McMichael
Oxford University Press (February 6, 2017)
No Review

"Climate Change and the Health of Nations shows how the natural environment has vast direct and indirect repercussions for human health and welfare. McMichael takes us on a tour of human history through the lens of major transformations in climate. From the very beginning of our species some five million years ago, human biology has evolved in response to cooling temperatures, new food sources, and changing geography. As societies began to form, they too adapted in relation to their environments, most notably with the development of agriculture eleven thousand years ago. Agricultural civilization was a Faustian bargain, however: the prosperity and comfort that an agrarian society provides relies (sic) on the assumption that the environment will largely remain stable. Indeed, for agriculture to succeed, environmental conditions must be just right, which McMichael refers to as the 'Goldilocks phenomenon.' Global warming is disrupting this balance, just as other climate-related upheavals have tested human societies throughout history. As McMichael shows, the break-up of the Roman Empire, the Bubonic Plague of Justinian, and the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization all have roots in climate change.

"Why devote so much analysis to the past, when the daunting future of climate change is already here? Because the story of mankind's previous survival in the face of an unpredictable and unstable climate, and of the terrible toll that climate change can take, could not be more important as we face the realities of a warming planet. This sweeping magnum opus is not only a rigorous, innovative, and fascinating exploration of how the climate affects the human condition, but also an urgent call to recognize our species' utter reliance on the earth as it is."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (5 ratings)
ISBN 978-0190262952 ?
Climate Change and Human Health:
Risks and Responses
A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalan, K.L. Ebi, A. Githelo, J.D. Scheraga, & A. Woodward
World Health Organization (November, 2003)
No Review

"Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use, international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have heightened awareness that the long-term good health of populations depends on the continued stability and functioning of the biosphere's ecological, physical, and socioeconomic systems. The world's climate system is an integral part of the complex of life-supporting processes. Climate and weather have always had a powerful impact on human health and well-being. But like other large natural systems, the global climate system is coming under pressure from human activities. Global climate change is, therefore, a newer challenge to ongoing efforts to protect human health. This volume seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector."

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ISBN 978-9241562485 ?
Climate Change, Ecology, Health
J. Emil Morhardt
CloudRipper Press (May, 2016)
No Review

"Global warming and the resulting in climate change interact strongly with the Earth's ecology and human health, often in unpredictable ways; they are players in a scenario that appears to be permanently transforming Earth's biosphere. By now everyone gets the big picture. The carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a result of our intense use of fossil fuels as humanity's main source of energy for the past century or two. It took several hundred million years of photosynthesis to sequester that carbon, but it will take us only several hundred years to release it. Is there any reasonable way [to] stop, and still have enough energy? How much damage to society and the ecosystem has the additional carbon caused already, and how much will it cause in the future? These questions are addressed by hundreds of scientists, engineers, and economists in thousands of technical papers published each year. This book summarizes over 200 of the best of them published within the past year. It will give you a good sense of many of the issues, how much scientists currently know about them, and what they think is likely to happen next. One way to think of this is as the most complicated serialized mystery story ever written. We have a pretty good idea whodunit...we just don't know for sure yet what we have done. Reading this book will get you closer to figuring it out."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-0996353632 ?
Our Global Environment: (7th edition)
A Health Perspective
Anne Nadakavukaren
Waveland Press, Inc. (March 6, 2011)
No Review

"With attention to detail and cogent language, the author describes how human health and well-being are inextricably bound up in the web of interrelationships that characterize life on this planet."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (47 ratings)
ISBN 978-1577666868 ?
THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENDGAME
Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival
Robert L. Nadeau
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, March 2006
My Review

"The Environmental Endgame is substantive, innovative, and profound. Nadeau exposes the weaknesses of neoclassical economic theory, and shows why it cannot address environmental concerns. He offers instead a stimulating and radically new approach to sustainability." – Joseph Tainter author of The Collapse of Complex Societies

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.0 (6 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-8135-3812-9 ?
The Evolving Sphere of Food Security
Rosamond L. Naylor
Oxford University Press (September, 2014)
No Review

"The Evolving Sphere of Food Security traces four key areas of the food security field: 1) the political economy of food and agriculture; 2) challenges for the poorest billion; 3) agriculture's dependence on resources and the environment; and 4) food in a national and international security context. This book connects these areas in a way that tells an integrated story about human lives, resource use, and the policy process."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-0199354054 ?
The Climate Casino:
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
William D. Nordhaus
New Haven: Yale University Press (October 2013)
My Review

Dr. Nordhaus demonstrates the utility of placing a price on carbon emissions, thereby eliminating the marketplace distortion currently induced by those emissions — as an externality.

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (186 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-300-18977-3 ?
A Question of Balance:
Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
William D. Nordhaus
Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (October 28, 2014)
No Review

"As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods.

"In this important work, William Nordhaus integrates the entire spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global warming. The book offers one of the most extensive analyses of the economic and environmental dynamics of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and provides the tools to evaluate alternative approaches to slowing global warming. The author emphasizes the need to establish effective mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, to harness markets and harmonize the efforts of different countries. This book not only will shape discussion of one the world's most pressing problems but will provide the rationales and methods for achieving widespread agreement on our next best move in alleviating global warming."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.7 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-0300209396 ?
The Spirit of Green:
The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
William D. Nordhaus
Princeton University Press (May 18, 2021)
No Review

"Solving the world's biggest problems—from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance—requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. For carbon emissions and other environmental damage, this means ensuring that those responsible pay their full costs rather than continuing to pass them along to others, including future generations. In The Spirit of Green, Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus describes a new way of green thinking that would help us overcome our biggest challenges without sacrificing economic prosperity, in large part by accounting for the spillover costs of economic collisions.

"In a discussion that ranges from the history of the environmental movement to the Green New Deal, Nordhaus explains how the spirit of green thinking provides a compelling and hopeful new perspective on modern life. At the heart of green thinking is a recognition that the globalized world is shaped not by isolated individuals but rather by innumerable interactions inside and outside the economy. He shows how rethinking economic efficiency, sustainability, politics, profits, taxes, individual ethics, corporate social responsibility, finance, and more would improve the effectiveness and equity of our society. And he offers specific solutions—on how to price carbon, how to pursue low-carbon technologies, how to design an efficient tax system, and how to foster international cooperation through climate clubs. The result is a groundbreaking new vision of how we can have our environment and our economy too."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (20 ratings)
ISBN 978-0691214344 ?
WARMING THE WORLD
Economic Models of Global Warming
William D. Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer
Cambridge: The MIT Press, August 2000
No Review

"This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. They can help policy makers design better economic and environmental policies.: – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.0 (2 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262140713 SJ8 QC981.8.G56N67
Vanishing Fish:
Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
Daniel Pauly
Jennifer Jacquet (Fwd.)
Greystone Books (May 28, 2019)
No Review

"In these essays, award-winning biologist Dr. Daniel Pauly offers a thought-provoking look at the state of today's global fisheries—and a radical way to turn it around. Starting with the rapid expansion that followed World War II, he traces the arc of the fishing industry's ensuing demise, offering insights into how and why it has failed.

"With clear, convincing prose, Dr. Pauly draws on decades of research to provide an up-to-date assessment of ocean health and an analysis of the issues that have contributed to the current crisis, including globalization, massive underreporting of catch, and the phenomenon of 'shifting baselines,' in which, over time, important knowledge is lost about the state of the natural world.

"Finally, Vanishing Fish provides practical recommendations for a way forward—a vision of a vibrant future where small-scale fisheries can supply the majority of the world's fish."

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ISBN 978-1771643986 ?
Retreat from a Rising Sea:
Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis & Keith C. Pilkey
Columbia University Press (May, 2016)
No Review

"The authors detail specific threats faced by Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Amsterdam. Aware of the overwhelming social, political, and economic challenges that would accompany effective action, they consider the burden to the taxpayer and the logistics of moving landmarks and infrastructure, including toxic-waste sites. They also show readers the alternative: thousands of environmental refugees, with no legitimate means to regain what they have lost." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.8 (9 ratings)
ISBN 978-0231168441 ?
The Climate Change Crisis:
Solutions and Adaption for a Planet in Peril
Ross Michael Pink
Palgrave Macmillan (March 21, 2018)
No Review

"The Climate Change Crisis addresses climate change and its impact as a major threat for countries around the world. Through a collection of interviews with leading environmentalists and exploration into new innovations that can offer hope and protection for billions of people, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the paramount health and development challenges of climate change."

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-3319710327 ?
Life After Carbon:
The Next Global Transformation of Cities (3rd ed.)
Peter Plastrik & John Cleveland
Island Press (December 4, 2018)
No Review

"Life After Carbon presents the new ideas that are replacing the pillars of the modern-city model, converting climate disaster into urban opportunity, and shaping the next transformation of cities worldwide. It will inspire anyone who cares about the future of our cities, and help them to map a sustainable path forward."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-1610918497 ?
This Civilization Is Finished:
Conversations on the End of Empire — and What Lies Beyond
Rupert Read & Samuel Alexander
Simplicity Institute (June, 2019)
No Review

"Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth's climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people.

"This book is for those ready to accept the full gravity of the human predicament — and to consider what in the world is to be done. How can humanity mindfully navigate the inevitable descent ahead? Two critical thinkers here remove the rose-tinted glasses of much social and environmental commentary. With unremitting realism and yet defiant positivity, they engage each other in uncomfortable conversations about the end of Empire and what lies beyond."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (99 ratings)
ISBN 978-0994282835 ?
The Green New Deal:
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Jeremy Rifkin
St. Martin's Press (September 10, 2019)
No Review

"While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere, there is a parallel movement emerging within the business community that will shake the very foundation of the global economy in coming years. Key sectors of the economy are fast-decoupling from fossil fuels in favor of ever cheaper solar and wind energies and the new business opportunities and employment that accompany them. New studies are sounding the alarm that trillions of dollars in stranded fossil fuel assets could create a carbon bubble likely to burst by 2028, causing the collapse of the fossil fuel civilization. The marketplace is speaking, and governments will need to adapt if they are to survive and prosper.

"In The Green New Deal, New York Times bestselling author and renowned economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin delivers the political narrative and economic plan for the Green New Deal that we need at this critical moment in history. The concurrence of a stranded fossil fuel assets bubble and a green political vision opens up the possibility of a massive shift to a post-carbon ecological era, in time to prevent a temperature rise that will tip us over the edge into runaway climate change. With twenty-five years of experience implementing Green New Deal-style transitions for both the European Union and the People's Republic of China, Rifkin offers his vision for how to transform the global economy and save life on Earth."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-1250253200 ?
Big World, Small Planet:
Abundance within Planetary Boundaries
Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum & Peter Miller (contributor)
Yale University Press (September, 2015)
No Review

"Big World, Small Planet probes the urgent predicament of our times: how is it possible to create a positive future for both humanity and Earth? We have entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on the planet—and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize Earth's natural systems, with cascading consequences for human societies. In this extraordinary book, the authors combine the latest science with compelling storytelling and amazing photography to create a new narrative for humanity's future. Johan Rockström and Mattias Klum reject the notion that economic growth and human prosperity can only be achieved at the expense of the environment. They contend that we have unprecedented opportunities to navigate a 'good Anthropocene.' By embracing a deep mind-shift, humanity can reconnect to Earth, discover universal values, and take on the essential role of planetary steward. With eloquence and profound optimism, Rockström and Klum envision a future of abundance within planetary boundaries—a revolutionary future that is at once necessary, possible, and sustainable for coming generations." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (18 ratings)
ISBN 978-0300218367 ?
Green Gone Wrong:
How our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
Heather Rogers
Scribner (April, 2010)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.7 (13 ratings)
ISBN 978-1416572220 ?
Carbon Shock:
A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy
Mark Schapiro
Chelsea Green Publishing (August, 2014)
No Review

"In this thought-provoking work, journalist Schapiro (Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products) tackles the question: 'What are the costs of climate change?' In search of an answer, he embarks on a multi-year investigation that sends him across the globe. To humanize the issue, Schapiro traces the carbon footprint he leaves through such trips as a flight to Siberia, visits to the biggest commercial nursery west of the Mississippi and to Manchester (England's former textiles center), and a tour of Guangzhou, 'one of the top ten carbon-emitting provinces in a country that is itself the leading emitter.' " – Publishers' Weekly

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.7 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-1603585576 ?
The End of Stationarity:
Searching for the New Normal in the Age of Carbon Shock
Mark Schapiro
Chelsea Green Publishing (May, 2016)
No Review

"Scientists have devised a new term to explain the turmoil caused by climate change: the end of stationarity. It means that our baselines for rainfall, water flow, temperature, and extreme weather are no longer relevant—that making predictions based on past experience is no longer possible. But climate change has upended baselines in the financial world, too, disrupting the global economy in ways that are just becoming clear, leaving us unable to assess risk, and causing us to fundamentally re-think economic priorities and existing business models.

"The End of Stationarity deftly depicts the wild, new carbon economy, and shows us how nations, emerging and developed, teeter on its brink. Originally published in hardcover as Carbon Shock, the book is updated throughout and includes a new afterword, based on the Paris climate talks."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-1603586801 ?
Climate Change as a Security Risk
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Routledge (December, 2007)
No Review

"Without resolute counteraction, climate change will overstretch many societies' adaptive capacities within the coming decades. This could result in destabilization and violence, jeopardizing national and international security to a new degree." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-1844075362 ?
Climate Change Effect on Crop Productivity
Rakesh S. Sengar & Kalpana Sengar (Editors)
CRC Press (November, 2014)
No Review

"Agricultural sustainability has been gaining prominence in recent years and is now becoming the focal point of modern agriculture. Recognizing that crop production is very sensitive to climate change, Climate Change Effect on Crop Productivity explores this timely topic in depth." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: ? (0 ratings)
ISBN 978-1482229202 ?
Imperiled Life:
Revolution against Climate Catastrophe (Anarchist Interventions)
Javier Sethness-Castro
AK Press (June, 2012)
No Review

"Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-1849351058 ?
The Green Paradox:
A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
Hans-Werner Sinn
The MIT Press (February, 2012)
No Review

Eh?

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.7 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262016681 ?
American Exodus:
Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
Giles Slade
New Society Publishers (November, 2013)
No Review

"Some scientists predict the sea will rise one and a half meters before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real amount much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and heat events will be annual threats. All this will occur as population grows, and declining water resources desiccate agriculture. What will happen when the United States cannot provide food or fresh water for the overheated, overcrowded cities where 80 percent of Americans currently live?"

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (22 ratings)
ISBN 978-0865717497 ?
Acts of God: (2nd ed.)
The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Ted Steinberg
Oxford University Press (July, 2006)
No Review

"Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster Steinberg warned could happen when the book first was published. Focusing on America's worst natural disasters, Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see these tragedies as random outbursts of nature's violence or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how the decisions of business leaders and government officials have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows—America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg explains, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are simply better able to protect themselves from the violence of nature than others."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.0 (20 ratings)
ISBN 978-0195309683 ?
The Global Deal
Climate-Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
Nicholas Stern
New York: PublicAffairs (April 2009)
My Review

Sir Nicholas explains how and why the fixes for global poverty and global warming go hand in hand.

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.5 (11 ratings)
ISBN 978-1-58648-669-3 ?
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Nicholas Stern
Richard Layard, M.P. (Fwd.)
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, April 2015
My Review

"The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we waiting? In this book, Nicholas Stern explains why, notwithstanding the great attractions of a new path, it has been so difficult to tackle climate change effectively. He makes a compelling case for climate action now and sets out the forms that action should take." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.8 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-0-262-02918-6 ?
The Very Hungry City:
Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
Austin Troy
Yale University Press (January, 2012)
No Review

"As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City. Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains for general readers how a city with a high "urban energy metabolism"—that is, a city that needs large amounts of energy in order to function—will be at a competitive disadvantage in the future. He explores why cities have different energy metabolisms and discusses an array of innovative approaches to the problems of expensive energy consumption."

"Troy looks at dozens of cities and suburbs in Europe and the United States—from Los Angeles to Copenhagen, Denver to the Swedish urban redevelopment project Hammarby Sjöstad—to understand the diverse factors that affect their energy use: behavior, climate, water supply, building quality, transportation, and others. He then assesses some of the most imaginative solutions that cities have proposed, among them green building, energy-efficient neighborhoods, symbiotic infrastructure, congestion pricing, transit-oriented development, and water conservation. To conclude, the author addresses planning and policy approaches that can bring about change and transform the best ideas into real solutions."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.4 (6 ratings)
ISBN 978-0300162318 SJ3 333.7913 Troy
Small, Gritty, and Green:
The Promise of America's Smaller Indistrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Catherine Tumber
The MIT Press (November, 2011)
No Review

"As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses.

"Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest — from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester — interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (10 ratings)
ISBN 978-0262016698 SJ3 333.7709 Tumber
Fire Weather:
A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
Knopf (June 6, 2023)
No Review
John Vaillant's acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were national best sellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar's Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Vaillant has received the Governor General's Literary Award, British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver." – Amazon biography

"In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.

"Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.

"With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun."

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.6 (348 ratings)
ISBN 978-1524732851 ?
Nomad Century:
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Gaia Vince
Flatiron Books (August 23, 2022)
No Review
Gaia Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. She is the author of Transcendence and Adventures in the Anthropocene." – Amazon biography

"We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of.

"Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth's human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades. What exactly is happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?

"In this deeply-reported clarion call, Vince draws on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever."

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.9 (9 ratings)
ISBN 978-1250821614 ?
Climate Shock:
The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
Princeton University Press (February, 2015)
My Review

"Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with--and what could happen if we don't do so--Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.1 (30 ratings)
ISBN 978-0691159478 SJ3 363.7387 Wagner
The Uninhabitable Earth:
Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Tim Duggan Books (February 19, 2019)
My Review

"In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await—food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.3 (279 ratings)
ISBN 978-0525576709 ?
Climate Wars:
What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century
Harald Welzer
Polity (January, 2012)
No Review

"In this major new book Harald Welzer shows how climate change and violence go hand in hand. Climate change has far-reaching consequences for the living conditions of peoples around the world: inhabitable spaces shrink, scarce resources become scarcer, injustices grow deeper, not only between North and South but also between generations, storing up material for new social tensions and giving rise to violent conflicts, civil wars and massive refugee flows. Climate change poses major new challenges in terms of security, responsibility and justice, but as Welzer makes disturbingly clear, very little is being done to confront them." – publisher

Rating by Amazon customers: 4.0 (5 ratings)
ISBN 978-0745651453 ?
Rising Tides:
Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
John R. Wennersten & Denise Robbins
Indiana University Press (June 12, 2017)
No Review

"Global climate change and global refugee crises will soon become inextricably interlinked. A new tsunami of climate refugees flows across the earth. We are now at the moment of truth." – the authors

Rating by Amazon customers: 3.8 (4 ratings)
ISBN 978-0253025937 ?
Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations:
Processes of Creative Self-Destruction
Christopher Wright & Daniel Nyberg
Cambridge University Press (November, 2015)
No Review

"Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of 'business as usual'. The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk, corporate climate politics, the role of justification and compromise, and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students, this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change."

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (1 review)
ISBN 978-1107078222 ?
Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security in the 21st Century:
Our Daily Bread
Lewis H. Ziska
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (December, 2017)
No Review

"This book explores the history of agriculture, and the threat that climate change imposes for all aspects of our daily bread. While these challenges are severe and significant, it argues that we are not without hope, and offers a wide range of solutions, from polyculture farming to feminism that can, when applied, lead to a better future for humankind"

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (8 ratings)
ISBN 978-1527503144 ?
The Green New Deal:
Economics and Policy Analytics
Benjamin Zycher
American Enterprise Institute (April 22, 2019)
No Review

"The Green New Deal (GND) represents a massive increase in the power of government over the ability of individuals and businesses to use their resources in ways that they deem appropriate. Yet despite its purported goal of limiting future temperature increases by drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it will likely have no measurable impact on temperatures. At its core, the GND is the substitution of central planning in place of market forces for resource allocation, specifically in the US energy and transportation sectors and more broadly in the broad industrial, business, and housing sectors. A GND policy would yield no benefits in its central energy, environment, and climate context, but it would impose large economic costs."

Enormous costs, negligible benefits — the same old Libertarian song and dance

Rating by Amazon customers: 5.0 (5 ratings)
ISBN 978-0844750224 ?
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