When we read the news about how much time we have to try to avoid irreversible, devastating climate change, we may feel overwhelmed, especially if we wish to limit our carbon footprint or take action to save the environment. There are many climate change books that are outlined for this topic (old is gold), and at times you may like the writing style of an author more than the other, or maybe the overall presentation. So before putting up this script I would like to thank all the fellow friends who have helped me add these books which are not included in the Readers List 1, 2, and 3. These books are supposed to be thrilling ones.
Just to give you a recap, this blog is part 4 of the Climate Change Readers list. Those who have not explored the books that I have highlighted in the previous 15 Climate Change Books to read in 2022 – Readers list 1 are encouraged to do so.
A short disclaimer; I haven't read all the books and I have compiled these titles basis the recommondation that I recieved from my fellow climate enthusiasts and readers. I have only read first 7 books out of the listed 30.
The following 25 books on climate change are excellent resources to read when you feel helpless about what you can do to help protect our environment – as well as to share with friends and family who are still trying to comprehend the threat of climate change.



#1
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
An important work that combines intellectual history and natural history with reporting on the field to give us an accurate picture of the mass extinction unfolding right before our eyes. The diversity of life on earth abruptly and dramatically decreased five times over the last half a billion years.
The sixth extinction is now being monitored around the world by researchers. This is predicted to be the most devastating event since the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs. However, this time it is humans who are responsible for the disaster.
A decade’s worth of research from Elizabeth draws on dozens of disciplines, as she goes on field trips with many of them: geologists studying deep ocean cores, botanists following the tree line up the Andes, marine biologists diving off the Great Barrier Reef. The Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino are among the species she introduces, some extinct already and others in danger of disappearing.
In these stories, Kolbert traces the origins of the concept of extinction, first articulated in revolutionary Paris by the scientist Georges Cuvier through to the present day, through a moving account of disappearances. Kolbert observes that humanity’s sixth extinction will likely be its most lasting legacy; it forces us to rethink our defining characteristics as humans.
Author | Elizabeth Kolbert |
Pages | 336 |
My completion time | 28 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#2
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
We can use this existential crisis to lead us out of our failed economic system and build something radically better. Forget everything you thought you knew about global warming. It has nothing to do with carbon – it’s about capitalism.
In Naomi Klein’s book, she tackles the greatest threat humanity has ever faced: the war we are waging against life on earth as our economic model destroys the very fabric of existence on earth. She dispels myths that cloud the climate debate. Our market-driven addiction is digging us in deeper and deeper each and every day, yet it is the market that is supposed to save us. Despite what you were told, it’s quite possible to stop using fossil fuels. The trick is to break every rule in the “free-market” playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democratic rights.
In fact, the global fight for the next economy has already succeeded in surprising and inspiring ways all around the world within the last few years despite our greedy and self-centered nature.
Fires, floods, storms, and droughts are delivering a powerful message to civilization, one that requires our attention and intervention immediately – before the world changes so dramatically that no one can survive. Either we leap – or we sink.
Author | Naomi Klein |
Pages | 376 |
My completion time | 39 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#3
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer oscillated between a carnivore and a vegetarian for most of his life. Until after he started a family, he was okay with uncertainty about his own dietary choices, but after that, he began to the value of food.
In order to understand the origins of many eating traditions and the fiction associated with them, Foer set out to understand why we eat certain animals and not others. As Foer explores the darkest corners of our dining habits, she questions the motive behind each fried chicken, every grilled burger, and each fish we eat. It serves as a memoir as well as an investigative report, putting the author, as the LA Times puts it, “at the table with our greatest philosophers.” The book is a must-read for anyone dedicated to improving the lives of others.
Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
Pages | 352 |
My completion time | 20 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#4
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Our scientists have made landmark studies on DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. They have led the world in research on public health, environmental science, and quality of life issues.
Despite this, some powerful subsets of these groups deny these dangers with vehement abandon. In Merchants of Doubt, journalist Sam Harris tells the story of a loosely-knit group of high-level scientists, scientific advisers, and politicians with deep political and industrial connections who, over the course of four decades, effectively misled the public and denied well-established scientific knowledge.
Many of the people accusing global warming of being a hoax have surfaced again and again – the same figures who have debunked studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
One tobacco executive wrote, “Doubt is our product. These ‘experts’ supply it.”. The authors of this book reveal what has happened to some of the most pressing issues facing society as a result of corporate interests, ideology, and too-compliant media.
Author | Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes |
Pages | 368 |
My completion time | 24 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#5
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
In this book, you will find information on how to incorporate carbon considerations into everyday purchases by comparing the carbon footprint of paper bags and imported fruits and vegetables.
Taking a bus versus driving a hybrid car is an environmentally-friendly question generated by Mike Berners-Lee’s clever structure. A brief explanation of carbon footprints is provided after the author’s simple and short introduction. The manner in which this book is written consistently raises awareness. The amount of co2 humans produce is explained not only through education but also with the help of this book.
Author | Mike Berners-lee |
Pages | 232 |
My completion time | 11 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#6
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
From the Caribbean reefs to Arctic fisheries to the deepest regions of the sea, the sea feeds and sustains us. However, the sea faces threats everywhere it reaches.
The story of a man and the sea as it is today has evolved from the earliest signs of life on earth to today’s oceans, as one of the world’s foremost marine conservation biologists tells in this passionate ode to the sea and its creatures. Fishing practices and ocean acidification, rising tides and warming oceans, plastics, and shifting currents are among the things he discusses, as well as what we can do right now to protect our oceans.
Many people are aware of Turtles, Dolphins, Whales, and Tuna’s struggles, but few understand what has happened to our seas over the past fifty years and the increasing stress many species are experiencing.
The Ocean of Life is passionate and persuasive in equal measure and will appeal to those who enjoy other books on the ocean and who worry about environmental sustainability.
Author | Callum Roberts |
Pages | 432 |
My completion time | 30 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
#7
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Although we acknowledge climate change, we do little to stop it. What is it about our psyches that allows us to act as if it is false despite knowing it to be true?
Marshall finds himself confronted with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and Texas Tea Party activists; leaders of the world’s climate science community and those who denounce them; and liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. In the end, he discovered that our assumptions, values, and prejudices can develop their own individual existence, gaining authority as they are shared, and thereby dividing people.
Author | George Marshall |
Pages | 272 |
My completion time | 13 Days |
My personal rating | 4.5 out of 5.0 stars |
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- How does Kenya face both the extremes; Droughts and Floods?
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- What are the impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Kenya?
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