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We Should Give Up on Saving the Planet - James Lovelock

By James Lovelock — 2014

James Lovelock has spent his career in science defying the mainstream, with startling results. See more...

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The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis

The year 2020 upended every aspect of our lives.

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Evan Steiner (editor), Philip Clayton (editor), Kelli M. Archie (editor), Jonah Sachs (editor)
2024
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Falter

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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Bill Mckibben
2024
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

An original and compelling argument about how to control climate change by conserving the world’s megaforests.

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John W. Reid, Thomas E. Lovejoy
2022
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How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face...

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Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens
2020
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What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.

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Jeremy Lent
2019
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The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was written in 1971 and its message remains increasingly relevant today.

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Barry Commoner
2024
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Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2011
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Radical Regeneration: Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction

What is being made crystal clear is that humanity stands at a monumentally fragile threshold with two stark choices placed before it in a situation of complete uncertainty: Those choices are: 1) To continue to worship a vision of power, totally distanced from sacred reality 2) Or to choose the path...

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Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker
2020
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Why Bother?

Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.

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Michael Pollan
2008
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Inspiration and Joy Amidst Suffering and Loss

As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.

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James Baraz
2014
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