Environmental Issues


Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Silent Spring
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Overstory
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Flight Behavior
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Wild Dark Shore
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Bewilderment
We Are Water Protectors
Me and Marvin Gardens
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Eating Animals
Margaret Mahy
“ ...and after all, if I really wanted the bay to stay totally untouched, I wouldn't be living here myself, would I?" said her mother's voice out in the kitchen. I'd live in the city, and just enjoy the idea of the bay, pure and untouched between bare hills. But we built this house didn't we? We dug into the slope and levelled the space and poured the concrete foundations. ...more ”
― Margaret Mahy, Kaitangata Twitch

Mark Hertsgaard
“ … what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries’ consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world’s resource depletion and ecosystem destruction? ”
― Mark Hertsgaard

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