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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.50 — 189,428 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,063 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,230 ratings — published 1962
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,147 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,668 ratings — published 2004
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,544 ratings — published 2019
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 104,652 ratings — published 2012
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,198 ratings — published 2010
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 615,832 ratings — published 2025
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,133 ratings — published 2015
Bewilderment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,349 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,234 ratings — published 2020
Me and Marvin Gardens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,338 ratings — published 2017
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,168 ratings — published 2014
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,592 ratings — published 2009
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,484 ratings — published 1975
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 376,828 ratings — published 1971
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,343 ratings — published 2006
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 151,324 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,195 ratings — published 2021
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,801 ratings — published 2021
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,296 ratings — published 2019
Aquicorn Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,063 ratings — published 2018
Dry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,237 ratings — published 2018
How to Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,712 ratings — published 2017
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,682 ratings — published 2014
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,842 ratings — published 2016
The Roar (The Roar, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,060 ratings — published 2008
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,751 ratings — published 2012
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.31 — 3,338 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,464 ratings — published 2010
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,040 ratings — published 2006
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,912 ratings — published 2007
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,219 ratings — published 1968
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 112,056 ratings — published 2002
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.47 — 170,261 ratings — published 2023
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,814 ratings — published 2024
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.24 — 284,976 ratings — published 2021
How Beautiful We Were (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,786 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.10 — 118,871 ratings — published 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,394 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,791,538 ratings — published 2018
Gorilla Dawn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 563 ratings — published 2015
The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 131,878 ratings — published 2016
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,236 ratings — published 2016
Dear Children of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.42 — 263 ratings — published 1994
Fuzzy Mud (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,269 ratings — published 2015
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,602 ratings — published 1992
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,186 ratings — published 2013
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,882 ratings — published 1974
“Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“… 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?”
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