Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
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Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not o ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
How To Change Everything by Naomi Klein
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
The most authoritative book yet about climate change for teenagers, written by internationally bestselling expert Naomi Klein. Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon. The effects of climate change are all around us. Reforestation. School-strikes for climate change. Young people are saving the wo ...Show more
The Uninhabitable Earth - AStory of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
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Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Harvest for Hope : A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a ...Show more