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Your Family, Your Library Podcast: Climate Change (Episode 8)
These books will help you understand climate change and what we can all do to make a difference.
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The Carbon Footprint of Everything
2022 by Berners-Lee, MikeGet this itemThis book breaks items down by the amount of carbon they produce and considers the impact of the pandemic on the carbon battle, plus items we didn't consider a decade ago, like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
2021 by Conklin, ChristinaGet this itemThrough a rich combination of place-based storytelling, clear explanations of climate science and policy, and beautifully rendered maps that use a unique ink-on-dried-seaweed technique, this book depicts 20 locations across the globe, detailing what will be lost if we do not take bold action now.
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Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by your Kids-and Everyone Else
2023 by Cripps, ElizabethGet this itemWe raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this?
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power : your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
2017 by Gore, AlGet this itemFollow former vice president Gore around the globe as he tells a story of change in the making and offers real actionable steps that you can take to help reverse the damage.
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate
2014 by Klein, NaomiGet this itemThis book argues that climate change isn't just another issue; it's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
2014 by Kolbert, ElizabethGet this itemWith unmatched research and reporting, and beautiful writing, Kolbert shows how the current rate of species loss is approaching that of the mass extinctions that ended five previous geologic epochs.
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
2021 by Mann, Michael E.Get this itemIn this book, the author debunks the myth of the individual polluter and puts the responsibility of climate change directly on the fossil fuel companies that have created the crisis while outlining a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change.
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The Fragile Earth: Writing From the New Yorker on Climate Change
2020Get this itemThe New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. This collection features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades.
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
2018 by Romm, Joseph J.Get this itemThe essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, this book is a clear-eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet.
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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility
2023Get this itemThis essential guide features the voices of Indigenous activists, climate scientists, and longtime organizers, to take us from climate crisis to climate hope.
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The Climate Book
2023 by Thunberg, GretaGet this itemGreta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of more than 100 experts--geophysicists, oceanographers, and meteorologists; engineers, economists, and mathematicians; historians, philosophers, and indigenous leaders--to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster.
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
2019 by Wallace-Wells, DavidGet this itemWithout a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. This book is not for the faint of heart but is essential to developing a clear understanding of the realities we face if we continue to accept the status quo.
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