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Practical books for people who want to present solutions to motivate action on climate change.
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
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How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
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Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out
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3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
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4.07 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Weather
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Jenny Offill (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 39,046 ratings
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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Paul Hawken (Editor)
4.40 avg rating — 4,311 ratings
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change
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Gleb Raygorodetsky (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
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Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet
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Atmosphere, CO2 on my mind
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
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4.02 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor)
4.42 avg rating — 6,382 ratings
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The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania
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4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Climate Change (A True Book)
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Climate Change For Beginners
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
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4.25 avg rating — 9,803 ratings
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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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4.16 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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3.79 avg rating — 6,966 ratings
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
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3.84 avg rating — 371 ratings
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
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Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think
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4.31 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
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4.39 avg rating — 94 ratings
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How Women Can Save The Planet
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4.26 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate
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4.14 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The End of the Ocean (Climate Quartet, #2)
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3.70 avg rating — 15,900 ratings
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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Jeff Goodell (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 4,968 ratings
score: 94,
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Treading on Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change - How The Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives
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2.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
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New York 2140
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3.60 avg rating — 15,494 ratings
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Why We Swim
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Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 10,533 ratings
score: 93,
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Climate Change
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3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 92,
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,429 ratings
score: 92,
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In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis, 2021 Edition
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
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4.17 avg rating — 6,376 ratings
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The Ministry for the Future
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3.87 avg rating — 40,804 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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score: 89,
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Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
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Mario Alejandro Ariza (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 415 ratings
score: 89,
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 131,717 ratings
score: 88,
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MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 81,627 ratings
score: 87,
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