Our Burning Planet: Climate Change and the Environment
By Bookends of Keswick
Our Burning Planet: Climate Change and the Environment
By Bookends of Keswick
Regular customer and environmentalist Joe has selected books that investigate the most pressing issue of our time.
Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation at Regional and Local Scales
University of Canterbury) Sturman Professor Andrew (Professor and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)) Quenol Senior Scientist Herve (Senior Scientist
£37.99
SOS: What you can do to reduce climate change – simple actions that make a difference
Seth Wynes
£7.99 £7.59
Forget Me Not: Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain – WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Sophie Pavelle
£10.99 £10.44
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Ian Angus
£15.99 £15.19This important book written from a socialist perspective provides a clear-sighted analysis of how fossil fuel based capitalism has led to humans becoming agents of their own destruction and how only radical economic and political action can head it off. This is one of the best books I have read of how we have got to where we are. Ian Angus is editor of the online journal Climate and Capitalism.
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben
£10.99 £10.44). This beautifully written book by an acclaimed science writer and founder of the environmental organisation 350.org, has been described by Naomi Klein as ‘a love letter, a plea, a eulogy and a prayer.’ In it McKibben leads us to this ‘bleak moment in human history’ and shows us how we have a chance – albeit a slim one (now made more possible by Biden’s election) – of averting the apocalypse.
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition
Mike Berners-Lee
£11.99 £11.39This is Mike’s first popular book, which is both highly informative and entertaining at the same time. It covers everything from a text message to the World Cup. And on the way takes in an email, a mug of tea, an ice cream, a bowl of porridge, a litre of petrol, being cremated, a heart bypass operation, flying from London to Hong Kong return, having a child and many, many more!
Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis
Jackie Morris
£10.00Conceived by a group of four women involved in the theatre and in writing, this wonderful book brings together 100 pieces written mainly by women and girls world-wide, including ‘politicians and poets, actors and activists, songwriters and scientists’. Organised in five sections – love, loss, emergence, hope and action – the pieces were chosen from almost 1000 submitted and read at 52 venues in 12 countries on 12th April 2019.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Nathaniel Rich
£9.99 £9.49In the 1980s there was a convergence of views amongst politicians, scientists and serious journalists about the need for action to avert run-away climate change. That the decade was lost was due to the oil and gas industry’s coordinated strategy of misinformation, propaganda and political lobbying. This is a shocking indictment of the malevolent role of vested interests in wrecking our planet and our lives.
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg
£3.99 £3.79Be inspired by Greta’s first book in English, which includes all her speeches – 16 in total – from ‘climate rallies across Europe to audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum and the British Parliament’. Her message is urgent and passionate. And the speeches have arresting headings: ‘Prove me wrong.’ ‘I’m too young to do this.’ ‘The easiest solution is in front of you.’ ‘Wherever I go I seem to be surrounded by fairy tales.’
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein
£12.99 £12.34Another acclaimed writer on climate change brings together articles and speeches written over the past decade in a powerful prophetic blast to the intellect, the emotions and the spirit. With pieces on the Great Barrier Reef, the forest fires of the Pacific Northwest, the ‘ecological conversion’ of the Vatican, and the madness of geoengineering, this is a wonderfully wide ranging book.
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
John Freeman, Margaret Atwood, et al.
£12.99 £12.34). The subtitle says it all. Three dozen writers and activists from all over the world write about the impacts of climate change and the multiple environmental crises facing communities and places which they know well from Florida to Egypt, Nigeria to India, Haiti to Burundi, and many more.
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh
£15.00This is an urgent call to writers and artists to engage with the challenge of climate change in a way which is intellectually rigorous and at the same time fearless, in the words of the Guardian critic to ‘create space for apocalyptic thinking’. The Great Derangement added a new dimension to my thinking about the issue and led me to writing about all of these books.
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
David Wallace-Wells
£10.99 £10.44If it were not so brilliantly written this book would be almost unreadable for its apocalyptic vision. ‘Hits you like a comet with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our impending Armageddon,’ writes Andrew Solomon. This is the best of the many books I have read in the last two years on the stark details of what is facing us. And, be warned, it is terrifying.
We Are All Greta: Be Inspired to Save the World
Valentina Giannella and Manuela Marazzi
£9.99 £9.49Here is a beautifully illustrated handbook for young people, which covers the science of climate change, fossil fuels and renewable energy, drinking water, waste and recycling, plastic pollution, farming and fishing, sustainable eating, and action for the future. It has an excellent glossary of useful words and authoritative websites. This is a must for all young activists.
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. (Harvard University) Wilson
£12.99‘Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist … argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half of the surface of the Earth to nature.’ (Quoted from cover)
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
£12.99 £12.34‘A passionate call to arms from the former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change and senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement ... Practical, optimistic and empowering, The Future We Choose is a book for every generation, for all who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.’ (Quoted from cover)