Best Climate Change Books

Jonathan Safran Foer's We Are the Weather reads like a spirited moral polemic woven with personal anecdote and plainspoken argument. Its useful part is the ethical challenge: if you accept human-caused warming, what lifestyle choices follow? The book motivates and agitates rather than supplying technical road maps, so readers seeking careful data analysis or step-by-step policy plans may be frustrated. Tone can shift to sermonizing, and practical recommendations are often broad rather than detailed.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sealevel rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possiblefood shortages, refugee emergencies, climate…

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirtyyear campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat.

2015 Pulitzer Prize WinnerOver the last halfbillion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted.

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.Bill Gates explains why he…

Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talkedabout climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial story of how a looseknit group of highlevel scientists and…

In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon…

#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Dealexplaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.For more than twenty years,…

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more…

A new vision of the future of New York City in the 22nd century, a flooded, but vibrant metropolis, from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora.A new vision of the future from Kim…

New York Times bestseller The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative…

From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation.

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake,…

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…