Climate Change Future

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires...

“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas...

Roots of Renewal: Building a Sustainable Future for Coffee in a Changing Climate explores the future of the world’s most beloved beverage through the lens of sustainability, science, and social responsibility. From the misty highlands of Ethiopia to the coffee cooperatives of Latin America, this book traces how climate change, deforestation, and global trade are reshaping the landscapes and livelihoods behind every cup. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it reveals the hidden connections between ecology, innovation, and consumer choice. Readers will learn how farmers are ...

Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington - dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability" - explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century.

Get ready for a thrilling ride with Silo 42: Deception, the first book in the Silo 42 series! In a post-apocolyptic world torn apart by war, 50 isolated underground Silos have been built to protect the last remaining humans. But Silo 42 is different - a society that embraces Native American values and thrives in secrecy. However, their prosperity may be short-lived as Silo 1 becomes suspicious of their success and threatens to expose them. With the fate of his Silo and its inhabitants in his hands, Ahotay Lathrop must navigate a delicate balance to protect his people. But will they be able ...

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its...

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the global North can’t continue unabated, and we must give up the idea that humans can fully control the Earth through technological “fixes” that only wreak further havoc. Rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life for the entire planet.

Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first comprehensive study of how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents—or not.

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...

The world does not end with a zombie, vampire, or werewolf uprising. Evil wizards do not cast their spells. Rampaging robots do not takeover, nor do disagreeable aliens invade. We are human beings. We need no help in bringing about the Apocalypse. The travelers depicted in this novel journey through a time of unprecedented climate change. Warming earth temperatures begin to significantly melt arctic permafrost releasing long stored methane gas. The released methane reaches a level in the atmosphere that causes global temperatures to rapidly rise beyond all predictions. The accelerated ...

The Lost Continent: At the edge of the world, an impossible relic from the fables of antiquity has risen from the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Professor Logan and his exploration team rush to investigate this historic find, but this unique discovery puts their lives in peril when they unearth the remnants of a long-forgotten civilization left buried beneath the ice. Within the twisting labyrinths below the melting glaciers, they uncover an ancient culture which had perished from a mysterious cataclysm. They soon realize it was a polar shift which had caused their destruction, and our ...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

What If the Most Famous Prophet in History Was Warning Us About the World After 2026? War on multiple fronts. Collapsing climates and cities on fire. Pandemics that leap borders in days. Artificial minds that can outthink governments and corporations. For centuries readers have claimed to find these fears in the mysterious quatrains of Nostradamus. In Nostradamus After Tomorrow: The Prophecies That Will Change Our World, historian and researcher Gabriel S. Reyes strips away the superstition and sensationalism to ask a sharper question. What happens when we read Nostradamus the way ...

We’re running out of time. Fossil fuels are choking the planet and renewable energy isn’t cutting it. The solution has been hiding in plain sight all along. Nuclear. When most people hear that word, they go to a very bad place: bombs, Chernobyl, hazmat suits, radioactive fallout… the stuff...

How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone. Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and...

How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us...

Our current path leads to a dead end—but it’s not too late to change course. The first step toward reducing your carbon footprint starts here.

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new...

The human brain is not as it seems. The systems that it relies for everyday tasks—such as sensory processing and the maintenance of consciousness—have “failure modes” that mislead us about the nature of our mind and the world around us. In the face of a climate crisis, these failure modes have inhibited us from acting with the resolve this moment calls for. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Our Shared Illusions: What Neuroscience Reveals About Our Minds, Our Planet, and Our Future uses this new science of the brain to understand these failure modes, and chart a way forward. Our ...