“I regard myself as an optimist … I see the chances as 51% that 30 years from now you’ll find a world worth living in and 49% that you wouldn’t want to be alive”

—Jared Diamond in Rediscovering Earth

“[E]nvironmental and humanitarian crises in Egypt, Mexico, Hawaii, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and beyond are brought forward in masterful works elegiac, angry, and ironic in Freeman’s clarion global chorus.”

—Booklist, starred review of Tales of Two Planets

"Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam cause us to think—and to feel—what life will be like in a future where nothing is left that is spontaneous, accidental, or uncontrolled. A beautiful—and frightening—book.”

—Naomi Oreskes, professor, history of science, Harvard; author, Merchants of Doubt on Love in the Anthropocene

“[T]here is a lot about global warming that we don't know. As the planet heats up, almost certainly some regions will experience more intense droughts, but which regions, exactly, and how intense will those droughts be? ....The greatest unknown of all is, of course, how people, collectively, will respond. Will they be chastened? Genocidal? Or will they just muddle along, behind growing seawalls and shrinking coasts? Science—even social science—can't answer questions like this, which is why we turn to science fiction. Welcome to the Greenhouse!”

—Elizabeth Kolbert on Welcome to the Greenhouse

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CAPITALISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: A READING LIST

Featuring a curated list of titles on environmental disaster and extinction, our relentlessly expanding energy consumption, and–most importantly–how we can resist irreversible climate collapse before it’s too late.


CANOPY OF TITANS The Life and Times of the Great American Temperate Rainforest Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. It catalogs the threats to this vital environmental resource. More
BEYOND FOSSIL LAW Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future Ted Hamilton Beyond Fossil Law: Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future answers a pressing question for the future of the planet: why is it legal for companies to pump dangerous gases into the atmosphere but illegal for regular people to stop them? Reviewing the current state of “fossil law”—the rules and regulations that allow the disruption of the global climate system—the book explains how financial interest, colonial power, and outmoded legal ideas block efforts to prevent global warming. More	REDISCOVERING EARTH Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature Anders Dunker The gap between what we know and what we do has haunted the field of moral philosophy since antiquity, and is at the center of today’s environmental crisis. Put simply: if we know that we are destroying the planet, our habitat, why do we continue to do it? The ten dialogues collected here investigate this question, and propose how we might salvage the planet and save our own lives. More
PEOPLE’S POWER Reclaiming the Energy Commons Ashley Dawson People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. More	TALES OF TWO PLANETS Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World John Freeman Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. More
WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE New Science Fiction on Climate Change Edited by Gordon Van Gelder 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	EXTINCTION A Radical History Ashley Dawson 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
LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam 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 Peter Lehner with Bob Deans “If you’re looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it’s done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it… [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
CRUEL Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation Sue Coe “There is a spiritual terror, the promise of hell that makes them difficult to look at, and even more difficult to look away from.” —Los Angeles Review of Books More	Parrot Tales Our Life with a Magical Bird Debby Smith & Michael Steven Smith In encountering Charlie’s tales in this concise and charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only enjoyed as companions. More

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