Iām a pediatrician in Reno, the fastest-warming city in the US. I also have a background in environmental science. Iāve seen the impacts of climate change on children first-hand, especially the impact of worsening wildfire smoke from āmega-firesā in California. It is impossible for me to look at babies and children suffering the impacts of worsening smoke, smog, allergies, heat, natural disasters, and infectious diseases and not see that the most powerful industry in history has unloaded the cost of their business onto the least powerful. I am passionate about this topic because I see climate change as a crime against children, who are especially vulnerable to its effects.
This bookĀ is a classicāthe book that launched the modern environmental movement in 1962. Rachel Carsonās 1962 warning about the dystopian future we faced from inappropriate use of chemical pesticides (such as DDT) and herbicides was groundbreaking, as the public had been told these substances were safe.
I love it because it is an intricate and beautifully woven tale about humanityās relationship with nature and our own hubris. It shattered commonly held views and created a new way of viewing the world and our role in it.
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.Ā "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, forĀ Time"s 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson"s watershedā¦
I love this book, another classic, partly because it was the first shocking explanation for a general audience of the āgreenhouse effectā (as global warming was called in 1989) and what it would mean for our future.
I also love McKibbenās ability to synthesize narrative and data from all over the world and multiple branches of science. He was warning us about an existential threat long before most of the public understood it.
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars
'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.
Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which, he argues, could save us. A moving elegy to nature in itsā¦
The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a metre or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world willā¦
I love the breadth and depth of reporting in this bookāhow Jeff Goodell ties together a vast array of consequences, some already catastrophic, of Earthās rising temperature. He traveled the world and spoke to countless people, from scientists to undocumented farm workers, telling stories of tragedy and hope.
You will finish it astounded at how human health and civilization are webbed to temperatureāand how we are unraveling the fabric of our own survival.
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Jeff Goodell's "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) investigation exposes "through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and fascinating scientific explanations" (Naomi Klein) an explosive new understanding of heat and the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. "Entertaining and thoroughly researched," (Al Gore), it will completely change the way you see the world, and despite its urgent themes, is injectedā¦
I love this bookĀ because of its moral clarity and historical detail. Itās an essential book for anyone trying to understand the politics that have paralyzed action for so long.
Dr. Mann describes how, for decades, the fossil fuel industry has waged war on the planet and humanity (not to mention climate scientists) through propaganda, lobbying, and purchasing politicians, even though theyāve known for 50 years what they were doing.
It changed how I interpret many things I see on social media; I feel better equipped to recognize bots from the industry and petrostates.
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year 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. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals.
In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of "network climate action"āthe idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those closeā¦
I loved this bookĀ because of its discussion of paleontology (which has always interested me) and the extinctions prior to this one. But I also loved Kolbertās description of the history of paleontology itselfāspecifically, how the discovery of fossils triggered a crisis in our understanding of ourselves and our world.
Like some of my other selections, this book made me think about humanityās relationship to the planet and the other life we share it with.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.
Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing.
The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's mostā¦
Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendricksonās clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevadaāthe fastest-warming U.S. city where ash falls like snow during summer wildfires. In The Air They Breathe, Dr. Hendrickson uses patient stories to explain how childrenās bodies are interwoven with and shaped by their surroundingsāand why children's health is at risk as the planet warms and their environment changes.
Her book is not just about the health impacts of global warming but something more: a soul-stirring reminder of our moral responsibility to our children and their profound connections to this unique and irreplaceable world.
The Drum Tree explores an Earth equivalent world at the cusp of ecological and economic uncertainty through the discoveries and explorations of four exceptional teens and their families.
In this book, you will meet Delanāa drummer and forest wanderer, Haliāa dancer and free spirit, and Jaseāa blacksmith and martial artist.ā¦
Sea Sagas of the North is about story and transformation.
Story is a simple device common to every human culture. Put simply, the patterns of good story match the shapes of our lives. Story was once tales told at every flickering fireside, the childrenās faces upturned and wide-eyed. Now itā¦
