Climate & Environment
Understand the ecological crisis and discover what we can do about it — from alarm to action.
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Why read this now
The book that started the environmental movement — Carson's warning about pesticides changed history.
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Why read this now
From pesticides to planetary crisis — we're causing the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history.
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
Why read this now
The full, terrifying picture — what climate change will do to food, water, health, and civilization.
Drawdown
Paul Hawken
Why read this now
From despair to solutions — the 100 most substantive things we can do to reverse global warming.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Why read this now
Imagine success — Robinson's novel shows what it could look like if humanity actually solved climate change.
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
Why read this now
End by zooming in — fungi connect all life on Earth, and understanding them changes how you see nature.
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