Climate Change and biodiversity loss – best books
In this article Caro Feely, organic farmer and writer outlines her best books to inform yourself on the Climate Crisis and biodiversity. This is an extended list that I will add to over time.
Here is my top five to inform yourself and shock yourself awake on the climate crisis: (linked to amazon for ease of access but please borrow from your library or buy from your local bookshop instead).
- Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus
- Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Noami Klein
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming – David Wallace Wells
Books to awaken us to the emergency that the environmental crisis and climate crisis represent.
And on biodiversity loss (and a little about climate since they are linked)
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer – this is about biodiversity and climate change‘
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate fiction:
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Grape Expectations: A Family’s Vineyard Adventure in France (Caro Feely Book 1)
Saving Our Skins: Building a Vineyard Dream in France ( Caro Feely book 2 )
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