Climate Politics Books
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future... (more)
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to... (more)
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational... (more)
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful... (more)
Environment and Citizenship
The book concludes with a general reflection on the present and future of environmental citizenship. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, links to online resources and... (more)
Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics
Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence... (more)
How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living
Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as a species. We know the main task is to reduce our emissions as rapidly as possible to minimise the harm to the world's population... (more)
Footprints
A Times Book of the Year and A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils - industrial, chemical,... (more)
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity? The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of... (more)
An Idea Can Go Extinct
An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending... (more)
Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene
In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats that... (more)
A Future Beyond Growth: Towards a steady state economy
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of economics, sustainability and environmental studies in general. (more)
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world. Here is... (more)
Uncanny and Improbable Events
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of... (more)
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming.
Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing... (more)
Climate: Soul of the Earth
In this original book, Dennis Klocek considers climate to be an expression of Gaia, and presents climate as the soul of Earth within which human beings live and develop. The cosmic destiny of Earth,... (more)
Reimagining Climate Change
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one... (more)
Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice
Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and engaging prose, the book provides an historical... (more)
The Burning House: A Buddhist Response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency
We are living in an age of climate and ecological emergency. Buddhist teacher and Nonviolent Communication trainer Shantigarbha suggests practical ways to make a difference. With personal stories,... (more)
Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Extinction Rebellion, the IPCC's recent high impact... (more)
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics. (more)
Environmental Politics and Policy
This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in... (more)
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?
The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values... (more)
A Warning from the Golden Toad
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North... (more)
The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist,... (more)
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
A neurosurgeon explores how our tendency to prioritize short-term consumer pleasures spurs climate change, but also how the brain's amazing capacity for flexibility can-and likely will-enable us to... (more)
Earth Spirit: The Circle of Life is Broken - An Eco-Spiritual Philosophy of the Climate Crisis
The Circle of Life is more than the food web. It's a self-organizing system of global life-cooperation and energy dissipation. Its balance and stability have been taken for granted for millennia. But... (more)
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to... (more)
The Psychology of Trauma
What emotional, physical, and psychological effects might there be on those who have experienced traumatic events? How does neurodiversity, culture, and individual experience affect trauma responses?... (more)