Environmental Justice

By Earthbound Books

Environmental Justice

More and more people are waking up to the intersection of climate justice and racial justice. There aren't many books on this specific topic, which I why I wrote one myself (coming soon...) In the meantime, here are some of the books I have encountered in the course of research. This list is a work in progress - let me know your recommendations over on the blog.

Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope

Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas, et al.

£19.99

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Gaia Vince

£20.00

Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call...

Heather McTeer Toney

£15.99

£15.19

Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

Laurie Parsons

£18.99

A Short History of Power: How societies create and sustain...

Dr Dr Jack Davy

£20.00

£19.00

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems...

Leah Thomas

£12.99

£12.34

The Invention of Green Colonialism

Guillaume Blanc

£15.99

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with...

J. Drew Lanham

£12.99

£12.34

What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care

Elizabeth Cripps

£12.99

£12.34

Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate...

Samantha Montano

£20.00

£18.60

How Women Can Save The Planet

Anne Karpf

£14.99

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

The Red Nation

£10.99

£10.44

Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism,...

Aja Barber

£15.00

£14.25

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to...

Vanessa Nakate

£20.00

£19.00

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the...

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

£14.99

£14.24

Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle...

Jeremy Williams

£9.99

£9.49

Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution

Mary Robinson

£9.99

£9.49

Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist...

Jennie C Stephens

£26.00

Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice

Chris Saltmarsh

£9.99

£9.49

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the...

Carl A. Zimring

£25.99

Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto for...

£12.99

£12.34

Is Racism an Environmental Threat?

Ghassan Hage

£35.00

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its...

Harriet A. Washington

£15.99

£15.19

The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from...

Kevin J. O'Brien

£22.50

To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate...

NNIMMO BASSEY

£17.19

Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and the Lakota's Struggle for Justice

Bikem Ekberzade

£14.99

Tales Of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and...

Arundhati Roy, John Freeman, et al.

£12.99

£12.34

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh

£11.50

What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from...

Wen Stephenson

£22.50

£20.92

What is Critical Environmental Justice?

David Naguib Pellow

£15.99

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial...

Dorceta Taylor

£25.99

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for...

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

£15.99

£15.19

The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change

Alister Doyle

£20.00

£19.00

The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

£19.99

PS - the field of environmental justice is more developed in the United States. There are more books available and a slightly longer list at Earthbound Books US.