Environmental Justice

By Earthbound Books

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

Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope

Amanda Thomas, Sophie Bond, et al.

£19.99
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Gaia Vince

£20.00
Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions

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

Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

Laurie Parsons

£18.99
We, the Oppressors

We, the Oppressors

Dr Dr Jack Davy

£20.00
£19.00
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems...

Leah Thomas

£12.99
£12.34
The Invention of Green Colonialism

The Invention of Green Colonialism

Guillaume Blanc

£15.99
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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

What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care

Elizabeth Cripps

£12.99
£12.34
Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

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

Samantha Montano

£20.00
How Women Can Save The Planet

How Women Can Save The Planet

Anne Karpf

£14.99
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

The Red Nation

£10.99
£10.44
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism

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

Aja Barber

£15.00
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

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 Climate Crisis

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

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

£16.99
£16.14
Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

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

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

Mary Robinson

£9.99
£9.49
Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy

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

Jennie C Stephens

£31.00
Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice

Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice

Chris Saltmarsh

£9.99
£9.49
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

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

Carl A. Zimring

£23.99
Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto for Climate Justice

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

£12.99
£12.34
Is Racism an Environmental Threat?

Is Racism an Environmental Threat?

Ghassan Hage

£35.00
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

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

Harriet A. Washington

£16.99
£16.14
The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists

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

Kevin J. O'Brien

£21.50
To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa

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

NNIMMO BASSEY

£17.19
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World

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

Margaret Atwood, John Freeman, et al.

£12.99
£12.34
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh

£15.00
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

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

Wen Stephenson

£22.50
What is Critical Environmental Justice?

What is Critical Environmental Justice?

Santa Barbara) Pellow David Naguib (University of California

£15.99
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial...

Dorceta Taylor

£27.99
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

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

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 and Save the Planet from Climate Change

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.