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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

by Paul Hawken

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An unprecedented coalition of researchers ranks the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, from renewable energy and plant-rich diets to educating girls and refrigerant management. Each solution includes carbon impact estimates, net costs, and implementation pathways based on rigorous peer-reviewed research.

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

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Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed without confronting the logic of deregulated capitalism that created it. Drawing on reporting from around the world, she makes the case that climate action is humanity's best chance to simultaneously fix an economic system that is failing the majority.

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Kolbert investigates humanity's increasingly radical interventions in nature, from gene-editing coral to survive warming oceans to schemes to dim the sun. A probing examination of whether the same ingenuity that created the climate crisis can now save us from it.

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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

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A harrowing account of the cascading consequences of climate change, from heat death to economic collapse to civilizational unraveling. Wallace-Wells synthesizes the latest climate science into a vivid, urgent narrative about the near-future world we are building through inaction.

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