 | Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Buy new: $10.69 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $13.00 did you know Inuit groups are suing the US government for its role in the destruction of the Arctic and the ancient cultures there?
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 | On Thin Ice by Jamie Bastedo
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 YA fiction set in 2006 that should be read by all ages: an endangered Canadian village, polar bears and shamanism
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 | Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $11.25 adult literary ficion set in 1971 Arctic up to the present: an endangered coastal Alaska village, grizzly bears, and shamanism
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 | The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell
Buy new: $19.20 / Used from: $0.01 not just little villages in Alaska but all coastal cities (and not just USA cities, duh)
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 | An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
Buy new: $9.58 / Used from: $0.94 the movie is better, because the charts and everything make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up
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 | The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Buy used from: $1.69 this is a seminal work by Australian climatologist, but it is not uplifting or light reading, or whatever
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 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.89 really good one too but it has been criticized for being a "Downer". She came to SEattle and was popular here though. We are a downer people because of our Scandinavian roots and our mythic belief in fate and Ragnorok (the end of the world)
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 | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Buy new: $21.83 / Used from: $5.00 maybe this one is an "upper" full of hope, etc
Something you can give to your kids.
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 | The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
Buy new: $20.54 / Used from: $2.51 by the father of the environmental movement - a downer, he has an unhappy ending!! There will be only a few "breeding couples" left in the ARctic, where my family lives. But maybe for them, that is a happy ending. And the other downer: there is no way to fend it off, not even using nuclear power. We have passed the tipping point.
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 | State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Buy used from: $0.01 he had fun with this contrarian book and convinced some of my friends (admittedly, they are Chrichton fans)
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 | Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Warming by Michael Tennesen
Buy used from: $0.63 I love idiot's guides - some of the best writing around.
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 | Climate Change and Biodiversity
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $23.74 I got him mixed up with Lovelock..but yes, biodiversity or the lack of it is my big fear (along with no water to drink)
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 | The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era by Jeremy K. Leggett
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $2.02 fascinating stuff but a real downer
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 | How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individuals Guide to Stopping Climate Change by Chris Goodall
Buy new: $24.45 / Used from: $13.70 this is uplifting until you read it and realize that you have to live in really chilly dank houses all winter and wear sweaters like in England, where they never bathe
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 | Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster by Ross Gelbspan
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.07 |
 | The Queen of Springtime: The New Springtime, Volume 2 (Beyond Armageddon)
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $2.94 throwing in some cool sci fi (Sci fi and speculative writers have long been fascinated with the implications of massive climate change and such Armageddon
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 | The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.92 see how the ancient Norse dealt with their climage change...
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.30 (see above)
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 | With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce
Buy new: $14.79 / Used from: $2.45 we are at many tipping points right now - did you know? and scientists are very afraid, even if their faces don't emote
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 | Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman
Buy used from: $8.45 Plagues: what a downer
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 | The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard B. Alley
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.57 |
 | The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations by Eugene Linden
Buy new: $20.80 / Used from: $0.01 more downer histories
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 | Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian Fagan
Buy new: $11.22 / Used from: $4.13 the key word: FAMINE
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 | The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation (World Ecological Degradation) by Sing C. Chew
Buy new: $36.95 / Used from: $25.31 this is very interesting (and see the title below about the Little Ice Age in Europe)
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 | The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life by J.A. Chapman
Buy new: $53.56 / Used from: $57.49 |
 | The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
Buy used from: $6.41 did you know the little ice age had a lot to do with the Black Death that wiped out a third to a half of Europe (and India, China, Central Asian cities)?
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 | The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 by Dorothy Jean Ray
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $10.78 read about their legends of past climate change and the great floods that wiped out everyone except for a few people
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 | The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.25 read ancient Norse myths of the end of the world, with massive climate change and wars where fathers fight sons). But then it gets better: the Earth is reborn
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 | The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.63 |
 | The Light at the End of the World by Lorraine Dopson
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.14 a novel of prehistoric people dealing with massive climate change (it really happened).
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 | Impacts of a Warming Arctic by Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $0.99 the latest
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