Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started
1 year, 7 months ago

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started

LA Times  

Want to So we figured it was time for me to share a list of books I’ve found helpful, for newbies and experts alike. “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh : Don’t be deterred by this book’s academic appearance. Through meticulously reported examples, she explains why letting go of a “free market” economy is critical to our survival — and how responding to climate change can be a catalyst to fixing long-broken systems. Start with “This Changes Everything” if you’re new to Klein’s work, and then check out her latest book, “On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal.” “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” by Elizabeth Kolbert : For those of you wondering about geoengineering, this book, to put it in Kolbert’s words, is about “people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a hard look at human intervention, with sharp observations on what we stand to lose. “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver : Nuanced and closely observed, this novel peels back the layers of climate change through monarch butterflies and a spirited young woman in rural Tennessee.

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Climate change made the deadly Los Angeles wildfires more likely. And, the worst is yet to come
2 months ago

Climate change made the deadly Los Angeles wildfires more likely. And, the worst is yet to come

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The devastating wildfires that resulted in the deaths of 29 Californians this month were made …

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is
4 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is

LA Times  

To the editor: Climate change is the biggest threat facing us? Soon, that list may include the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who knows how many others as the nuclear genie multiplies throughout the world? It is long past time for thought leaders to wake up to the world’s most urgent threat and get a real conversation …

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential

LA Times  

When I was a child, the possibility of apocalypse due to climate change seemed too distant for me to worry about. I never would have imagined that climate change would be an existential threat not in a few centuries, but within our modern era. I had watched a goofy comedy skit on YouTube when I was around 9 that suggested …

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.

LA Times  

It’s Friday, Sept. 13. Their anxieties — and their commitment to solutions — inspired my colleagues to fan out across our beats to better understand how young people were grappling with climate change and extreme weather. While many will say that climate change is a “young person’s problem,” I spoke with a group of activists over the age of 60 …

Feeling climate anxiety? These books offer glimmers of hope — and much-needed wisdom
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Feeling climate anxiety? These books offer glimmers of hope — and much-needed wisdom

LA Times  

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on climate anxiety — and on the feelings of helplessness that have simmered in the hearts and minds of so many friends and colleagues. “The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here” by Hope Jahren : A slim but mighty read, this book is conversational, enlightening, …

Our climate change challenge
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Our climate change challenge

LA Times  

There’s no escaping the damage we’ve done to our planet. In 2015, almost 200 nations agreed to try to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius — or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial levels as part of the Paris climate accord. “At this point, it is really difficult to see a path to keeping warming below 1.5 degrees,” …

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, …

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do
10 months ago

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do

Hindustan Times  

Aren’t we feeling smothered by the searing heat which has melted all previous records this summer? Though everyone cannot plant mini forests, there are organisations like Eco Sikhs which are assisting those desirous of planting volumes of trees. At the recent launch of advocate Jatinder ‘Jay’ Cheema’s book titled “Climate Change- The Policy, Law and Practice”, the aspect of individual …

4 Climate Fiction Books To Read Right Now
11 months, 4 weeks ago

4 Climate Fiction Books To Read Right Now

Huff Post  

This story and interview originally appeared in HuffPost’s Books newsletter. One month after this report, Sarah Ruiz-Grossman released her debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” adding to the vital voices in climate fiction, a literary genre marked by notable works such as Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 “Parable of the Sower.” As a former HuffPost reporter, this isn’t Ruiz-Grossman’s first foray …

Column: Where is climate change on film and TV? There’s now a Bechdel test for that
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: Where is climate change on film and TV? There’s now a Bechdel test for that

LA Times  

The famed Hollywood sign is destroyed by a devastating tornado in the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow,” which shows an exaggerated version of what climate change might look like. Left to right: America Ferrera as Gloria, Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha and Margot Robbie as Barbie in “Barbie.” As determined by the Colby College students who worked with English and …

The untold story behind climate change: we've known about the crisis for a while
1 year, 1 month ago

The untold story behind climate change: we've known about the crisis for a while

Hindustan Times  

There is no particular moment in history when the threat of a changing climate moved from academics to public consciousness. The report made claims that “turned out to be correct”, Naomi Oreskes, professor of history of science at Harvard University, said during a podcast, “Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. The report found resonance just a few years later, …

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change

LA Times  

You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense storms? As The Times’ Grace Toohey wrote last week, scientists have found that because of rising temperatures, a catastrophic storm “is more likely to happen and to be more intense, with a 2% chance of …

The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Goodell tells us how heat stroke melts your insides, killing you from the inside out; why American air-conditioning …

Climate change is scary. Here’s what gives people hope
1 year, 4 months ago

Climate change is scary. Here’s what gives people hope

LA Times  

Two years ago for Thanksgiving, I asked my L.A. Times colleagues who write about the environment: What gives them hope? Climate change is here because billions of people over hundreds of years have said “my personal impact will be negligible.” Harming the environment once, in aggregate, has a big impact. Incentives may change, but I’ve met and read about so …

How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.
1 year, 4 months ago

How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Raw Story  

This story was originally published by Grist. “Whether it’s wildfires or floods or drought, whether it’s extreme heat or storms, we know that climate change has made its way into our lives and it’s unfolding as predicted.” The report outlines steps every level of government can take to combat the climate crisis. — Akielly Hu Northwest Idaho, Oregon, Washington Climate …

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours
1 year, 7 months ago

Boiling Point: The climate change challenge is ours

LA Times  

Farmworker Leticia Jimenez, 61, inside her home at the Oasis Mobile Home Park in August in Thermal, Calif. Edited by Alice Short, “Our Climate Change Challenge” focuses on what must be done to slow down and ultimately reverse global warming, and who needs to do it: not just government and business, but every one of us. More particularly, how are …

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It’s a climate wake-up call for many
1 year, 8 months ago

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It’s a climate wake-up call for many

Associated Press  

Veronica Iordanova remembers Octobers growing up in Arizona when it was too cold to trick-or-treat in a short-sleeved Halloween costume. However, “there’s still a long ways to go before Americans have fully understood what’s happening here” with climate change, Leiserowitz said. “Back then I was like, oh, my gosh, you know, climate change, that’s horrible,” said Paul Bowyer, who grew …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 9 months ago

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?

Live Mint  

When we talk about the cost of the climate crisis, the implications are almost always depicted in financial terms. “For every 0.1ºC of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat,” said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and one of the co-authors of the …

This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change
1 year, 10 months ago

This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change

Salon  

Aside from its meteorological effects, climate change is also wreaking havoc on our minds: Younger generations are bitterly denouncing their elders in climate protests and mental illnesses are spreading as people feel powerless to avert catastrophe. Related We now know how badly our cities will be flooded due to climate change Food will be scarcer As far as eating is …

Historian Peter Frankopan discusses climate change and his new book ‘The Earth Transformed’
1 year, 11 months ago

Historian Peter Frankopan discusses climate change and his new book ‘The Earth Transformed’

The Hindu  

In his latest book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, Oxford historian Peter Frankopan traverses a wide span, geographically and historically, to map the role of climate in the history of civilisation. In the introduction, you write that ‘The book will explain how our world has always been one of transformation, transition and change because outside the Garden of Eden, …

What The Last of Us, Snowpiercer and 'climate fiction' get wrong
1 year, 11 months ago

What The Last of Us, Snowpiercer and 'climate fiction' get wrong

BBC  

What The Last of Us, Snowpiercer and 'climate fiction' get wrong Moho Films Novels and films that tackle global warming can inadvertently lead to paralysis, writes Tyler Harper. We are led to believe that reading or watching climate fiction is going to inspire activism, that "cli-fi" can foment an appetite for real societal change either by "scaring audiences straight" or …

Climate ‘propaganda’ textbook mailed to 8,000 US science teachers
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate ‘propaganda’ textbook mailed to 8,000 US science teachers

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Susan Joy Hassol, director of the non-profit science and outreach project, Climate Communications, said the book was “full of …

Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction
2 years ago

Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction

LA Times  

As the climate crisis continues to reshape our world, climate fiction has become one of the fastest-growing genres in literature. But many works with cli-fi elements challenge our conception of sci-fi versus “serious” literature and might even obliterate the bounds of genre altogether: Take Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom”, and just about anything by George Saunders. Le Guin, for instance, who wrote …

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like
2 years, 1 month ago

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like

The Hindu  

This year is when the United Nations will do a “global stocktake” of the climate, “when countries will review progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, including the goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C”. Similar stories of improbable wisdom and wild truths find space in Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene brought out by MIT Press as part …

Review: Has climate change migration already begun?
2 years, 1 month ago

Review: Has climate change migration already begun?

Associated Press  

“The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” by Jake Bittle Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near Biblical scale. In “The Great Displacement,” Jake Bittle’s reporting strategy was to visit places such as Big …

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm
2 years, 2 months ago

ROSS CLARK challenges the hysteria that surrounds climate change debates and argues they risk harm

Daily Mail  

Fear is very easy to spread. Yet if you report on every extreme event and throw in the term ‘climate change’, you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation. In his 2006 climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore asserted that the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone …

4 podcasts on climate anxiety and the environment in 2023
2 years, 2 months ago

4 podcasts on climate anxiety and the environment in 2023

Live Mint  

Most days, with the covid-19 pandemic looming and the climate crisis horns signaling an impending doom, I just want to be an ostrich: bury myself in sand and forget about the world. Tapping into the news cycle, understanding why establishing the loss and damage fund at COP27 last year was historic, questioning whether there is a right way to protest …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 4 months ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done
2 years, 4 months ago

On climate action: books that tell us what is happening and what can be done

The Hindu  

Climate change is no longer a subject of discussion for scientists alone. The COP27, this year’s most important climate conference underway in Egypt right now, has been described as the make-or-break moment for global action to get the Earth’s rising temperature under control. Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change is Nathaniel Rich’s ground breaking chronicle of …

Effects Of Climate Change In The U.S. Already Terrible And Widespread, Report Finds
2 years, 4 months ago

Effects Of Climate Change In The U.S. Already Terrible And Widespread, Report Finds

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The effects of climate change in the United States are already “far-reaching” and getting worse, but there remains hope that a rapid transition to a net zero economy can stave off the worst impacts of a warmer world, according to a sweeping new report. “Americans are feeling the effects of climate change in their everyday lives, as …

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?

Associated Press  

Relentless drought in China, East Africa, the U.S. West and northern Mexico, devastating floods in Pakistan and Kentucky, scorching heat waves in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, destructive cyclones in southern Africa and intense hurricanes in the U.S. and Central America make up just some of the recent extreme weather events that scientists have long predicted would be more intense …

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?

Associated Press  

Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere — is becoming exponentially more pressing, with the language of scientists, officials and activists becoming more serious with every passing year. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of …

Climate Migration: Alaska village resists despite threats
2 years, 5 months ago

Climate Migration: Alaska village resists despite threats

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s hard to see myself living elsewhere,” said Weyiouanna, …

The climate films shaping society
2 years, 5 months ago

The climate films shaping society

BBC  

The climate films shaping society Marvel/Walt Disney Black Panther shows a visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anticolonial society powered by clean energy We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on …

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?
2 years, 5 months ago

Climate Questions: How much has the climate changed already?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Relentless drought in China, East …

Climate Questions: What's going on with climate change?
2 years, 5 months ago

Climate Questions: What's going on with climate change?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Addressing climate change — a …

How the disturbing case of a TV weatherman shows the reality of reporting on the climate crisis
2 years, 5 months ago

How the disturbing case of a TV weatherman shows the reality of reporting on the climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I think you can turn people off if you’re hitting them over the head with,” Gloninger told The Independent …

People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh
2 years, 5 months ago

People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh

News 18  

When it comes to climate change, author and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh feels a personal responsibility to write about it, to talk about it, and to inform people about it. He feels a personal responsibility to write about climate change because he lived in Sundarbans for a long time and saw the impact there over the years. While Waters asked …

Climate Wars: The US’s divide on climate change
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate Wars: The US’s divide on climate change

Al Jazeera  

A two-part series on the division between people’s opinions on climate change in the United States. Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years – some of the long-predicted consequences of made-made global warming. In August 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a spending bill that – among …

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time for us to become ‘doists’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. However, it’s not enough to simply worry about rivers running dry or to shake our heads as much of …

Teaching young people about climate change through comics
2 years, 8 months ago

Teaching young people about climate change through comics

Live Mint  

We know young people are “angry, frustrated and scared” about climate change. While these are important components, they overlook the social, cultural and psychological ways people around the world are affected by climate change. Here the teacher notes that climate change is impacting people around the world, “today we are going to explore some of these places”. By showing real …

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding
2 years, 9 months ago

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding

India Today  

Extreme weather events from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more displaced. For heatwaves and extreme rainfall, "we find we have a much better understanding of how the intensity of these events is changing due to climate change," said study co-author Luke Harrington, a …

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding
2 years, 9 months ago

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding

The Hindu  

Extreme weather events — from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours — have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more displaced. For heatwaves and extreme rainfall, "we find we have a much better understanding of how the intensity of these events is changing due to climate change," said study co-author Luke …

Every heatwave ‘more intense and more likely’ because of climate change
2 years, 9 months ago

Every heatwave ‘more intense and more likely’ because of climate change

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But severe droughts in many parts of the world are not due to climate change, the review by scientists …

Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more
2 years, 9 months ago

Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more

Deccan Chronicle  

In our geography textbook of Grade VI or VII, there was a mention of the harsh summer months people of Rajasthan living around the desert belt have to endure. Such, too, is the impact of Amitav Ghosh’s recently released book The Living Mountain. However, spanning just 37 pages, The Living Mountain belies the expectations with which one goes to Ghosh …

5 climate change books that you must read
2 years, 10 months ago

5 climate change books that you must read

Live Mint  

As we come up to World Environment Day on 5 June, I have been wondering what books to recommend to people for a better understanding of the climate crisis. It’s also a great place to gain hope that we can still stop it, because Mann gives equal importance to listing the positive work that is being done to mitigate climate …

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis
2 years, 11 months ago

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Today is Earth Day 2022 – which means the …

10 best books to help you live more sustainably
2 years, 11 months ago

10 best books to help you live more sustainably

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sustainability started off as a buzzword many years ago, …

Greta Thunberg aims to drive change with ‘The Climate Book’
3 years ago

Greta Thunberg aims to drive change with ‘The Climate Book’

Associated Press  

LONDON — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the world’s interconnected environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers. It contains contributions from more than 100 academics, thinkers and campaigners, including novelists Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh, climate scientist Saleemul Huq and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Contributors including Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai, …

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