As Trump announces the United States will pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, our reading list for a warming world
The United States is the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas polluter and withdrawal from the agreement will have a profound effect on the planet, the New York Times reports.1
The 2015 accord, regarded by climate activists as a watershed moment in the struggle for international climate action, compels nearly every nation on earth to reduce carbon emissions to retard the warming of the planet, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The United States’ withdrawal from the agreement, which was a central promise of Trump’s campaign, will severely weaken the accord and its chances of enforcement globally. Below, including selections from scientists, environmentalists, fiction writers and activists, is our essential reading list for a warming world.
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EXTINCTION
A Radical History
Extinction: A Radical History argues that the vanishing of species cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To achieve progress, we must transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics. More |
Beautiful Trouble
A Toolbox for Revolution
Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. More |
MAD SCIENCE
The Nuclear Power Experiment
In Mad Science, Joseph Mangano strips away the near-smothering layers of distortions and outright lies that permeate the massive propaganda campaigns on behalf of nuclear energy. More |
LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
A collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into our corrupted environment to investigate a future bereft of natural environments. More |
In Deep Water
The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction
“[In Deep Water] shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil.” —Robert Redford More |
WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE
New Science Fiction on Climate Change
What will our new world look like in the face of climate change? In Welcome to the Greenhouse, award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time. More |
The Global Warming Reader
“…Here’s what isn’t happening: an outpouring of political outrage forcing leaders around the globe to wean our world off the fossil fuels that cause this heating. In some sense, this anthology is an attempt to deal with that paradox.” —from the introduction, More |
THE ANIMALS’ VEGAN MANIFESTO
Artist and animal rights advocate Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that, with extraordinary images and few words, takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. More |
Cruel
Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation
Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals so sacrificed and the workers involved in their violent destruction. More |
Further Reading
- “It’s a simple demand: give the stolen land back” — EXTINCTION author Ashley Dawson writes for Resilience (6/8/2022)
- “Study Suggests a Supernova Exploded Near Earth About 2.5 Million Years Ago, Possibly Triggering an Extinction Event” — EXTINCTION recommended in Forbes (10/16/2020)
- “Human activity is causing the disappearance and deterioration of wildlife at a rate that could represent an existential threat to humanity within our lifetimes.” —Democracy Now during a segment featuring ASHLEY DAWSON, author of EXTINCTION (5/9/2019)
- EXTINCTION and LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE are reviewed in Social Studies of Science (12/13/2017)
- “Expansion and exploitation are the threads of Dawson’s history.” EXTINCTION in PUBLIC BOOKS (3/13/2017)
