A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
by Mike BernersLee
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys and Jan Losert
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Environment, Science, and Nonfiction.
We all know deep down that these are the 'make or break' years for humanity and the planet and that we cannot flee to another world: but what can any of us really do about it There Is No Planet B has many of the answers, laid out in an accessible and entertaining way, and filled with astonishing statistics and analysis. Framed around the key fasci...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Environment, Science, and Nonfiction.
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Jan Losert
“Some that have had a big impact on me: An Uninhabitable Earth. Eating Animals. The Climate Book. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The New Climate War. There is No Planet B. Feral. Regenesis. Wilding.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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