Book List

Our Favourite Climate Change Books

Welcome to the Climate Emergency Forum book list where we’ve listed each of our team members’ favourite climate change books.

From Regina

• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
• What We Know About Climate Change, by Kerry Emanuel
• Under A White Sky, by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren

From Peter

• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot
• The Heat is On and Boiling Point, by Ross Gelbspan
• The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity, by James Lovelock
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells
• Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?, by David Ray Griffin
• Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, by James Hansen
• The Gen Z Emergency, by Reese Halter
• The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, by Dahr Jamail
• Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by Lester Brown
• You can see a helpful clip of Lester Brown at Compassionate Climate Action here.

From Paul

• My book list

From Charles

• Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide, by Bill McGuire
• The Ministry for the Future: A Novel, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Not the End of the World, by Hannah Ritchie

From Heidi

• Saving Us, by Katharine Hayhoe
• Carbon Choices, by Neil Kitching
• Intervention Earth, by Gwynne Dyer
• A Climate Vocabulary of the Future, by Herb Simmens

From Julie

• Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival, by Elizabeth Woodworth and Dr. Peter Carter
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore
• The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change, by Geoff Dembicki
• 2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime, by Robert Hunter
• Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, by Margaret Klein Salamon and Adam McKay

From the Earthday.org website

• 12 best books on climate change shared by climate activists.