From Greta Thunberg’s No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference to Jane Fonda’s What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It—here are the climate change books to read now
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In fact, actor and activist Jane Fonda has revealed that it was a book—Naomi Klein’s On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (Allen Lane, 2019)— that inspired her to start her weekly Fire Drill Friday protests in Washington DC, which made headlines around the world in 2019.
“Naomi’s book made clear that right now is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale,” Fonda explains in her own book, What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It (HQ, 2020). “I knew what I needed to do, and I felt it so strongly I was quivering all over.”
To find out how you can help fight climate change, here are six essential reads to add to your list this year.
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1. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac (Manilla Press,
2020)
In need of a hopeful vision of how we can tackle the climate crisis? Look no further than The Future We Choose, written by former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and political lobbyist Tom Rivett-Carnac. The book presents two scenarios for 2050: “The World We Are Creating”—the terrifying trajectory we’re headed towards if we don’t take action now—and “The World We Must Create”, which describes how we can successfully get global warming under control by achieving net-zero emissions and greening our cities. |
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2. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
edited by
Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr Katharine K Wilkinson (One
World, 2020)
Featuring the voices of 60 women from the environmental movement, All We Can Save is an anthology of essays and poems, ranging from biologist Janine Benyus’s powerful read on the reciprocity of trees to activist Varshini Prakash on how she co-founded the Sunrise Movement in the US. Edited by marine biologist Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and climate author and strategist Dr Katharine K Wilson, it’s the perfect book to dip in and out of to help you make sense of the crisis, as well as offering solutions. |
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3. On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by
Naomi Klein (Allen Lane, 2019)
Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein has become one of the best-known voices on climate since her 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Allen Lane, 2014). Her latest features a series of essays that highlight the emergency we’re facing and how a Green New Deal—a proposal set out by congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and senator Ed Markey in the US—could not only address global warming but the deep inequalities that exist in our societies. |
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4. No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference
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Greta Thunberg (Penguin, 2019)
If there’s anyone who can show the power we all have to create change, it’s Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who’s inspired millions to take the streets around the world after spearheading the Fridays For Future movement—as seen in the recent Hulu documentary I Am Greta. A collection of her most powerful speeches, this book is a call to action and a stark reminder of how little time we have left. |
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5. What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It by
Jane Fonda (HQ, 2020) Charting her journey from despair to action, Jane Fonda explains how she ended up conducting her weekly protests on the steps of the US Capitol every Friday, which led to her being arrested five times for civil disobedience, in her now-famous red coat. While recounting her Fire Drill Friday protests, she covers how we can save our oceans, how to hold the fossil-fuel industry accountable and environmental justice, as well as including a handy section at the end of each chapter on what we can do to help. |
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6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Penguin, 2013)
Did you know that Indigenous communities make up 5 per cent of the global population, but protect 80 per cent of the world’s biodiversity? That’s why it’s so important that we respect Indigenous wisdom, as Robin Wall Kimmerer—professor of environmental and forest biology and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation—explains in Braiding Sweetgrass, a beautifully written book that shows how we can learn from the plants and animals that surround us, and live in harmony with nature. |
Links
- The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
- No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference
- What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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