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Listopia > Richard Kerver's votes on the list The GCCM List (69 Books)
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Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
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"Club of Rome"
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rated it 4 stars
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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"A phenomenal read. "
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rated it 5 stars
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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"A seminal book from the person who popularized climate change in the conscience of the world."
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rated it 5 stars
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How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
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Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
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Winning the Green New Deal: Why We Must, How We Can
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"Very timely in advance of 2020 election, by members of the Sunrise Movement and others
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rated it 5 stars
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
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The Overstory
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"Richard Powers’ The Overstory, released in 2018, won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews all named it among the best books of 2018. It is very, very good."
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rated it 5 stars
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
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"Wow!"
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Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
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"It under-girds everything Global Catholic Climate Movement "
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rated it 4 stars
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This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
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"xrmass.org training Sep 7th in advance of #climatestrike worester Sep 20-27 and after."
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rated it 4 stars
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On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
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"Naomi Klein's new book. Arguably one of the best authors on the Climate Emergency facing humans and non-humans alike. "
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The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
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"Best assessment by scientists on our collective dilemma."
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Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
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"Recommended by Pachamama Alliance"
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Climate Courage: How Americans Are Bridging the Political Divide and Tackling Climate Change--A Bipartisan Citizens Guide
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"Listened to a Zoom meetup with Katharine Hayhoe "Climate Change, Our Faith Values, and 2020: A Conversation" "
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The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature
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"Highly rated on creating a deeper connection with Nature, essential for understanding and activism."
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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"The best book on the most excruciating consequence of what humans are doing on the only planet we know of with a atmosphere/hydrosphere/biosphere."
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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"Essential reading for those undertaking life changes to reduce their ecological footprint."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
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"One of the most influential books detailing the Climate Emergency, from a renowned leader of the Royal Academy of Sciences. "
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rated it 5 stars
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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"Made me an activist."
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rated it 5 stars
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The End of Nature
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"The first well informed book on the Climate Emergency which morphed into 350.org and the parametric approach for gauging potential success."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Future of Life
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"Tops everyone's list by one the most knowledgeable and articulate of our science leaders."
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Only Love Remains: Dancing At the Edge of Extinction (1)
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"Guy McPherson is the guy popularizing the NTHE (near term human extinction) mime, a very real possibility, until and unless we go carbon-neutral."
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The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
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"I love Thomas Berry's writings, one of the first to talk about the intersection of Religion & Spirituality in dealing with our Ecological crisis, of which the climate crisis is a part."
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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"A classic as true now as every."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
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"I love how David Suzuki teases out a sustainable path, if only we had ears to listen."
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The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals
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"A graphic, pictorial detailed account we humans impact just two phyla, albeit the ones we love the most. A must read to fall in love again with splendid nature, have deep empathy for our fellow creatures and radicalize your activism! "
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A Farewell to Ice
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"Why rising sea levels are inevitable to and past 2 meters by mid-century."
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
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"Highly recommended."
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In the Face of Fear: Buddhist Wisdom for Challenging Times (A Shambhala Sun Book)
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"Suffer our collective suffering, do not look away and develop such great compassion that you can not help but act."
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
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"Leader of the youth lead #climatestrike, super-charging this generation in their fight for a sustainable future."
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Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children’s Future
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"Its the book we're reading and discussing."
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rated it 3 stars
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Living in God's Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology (Foundations, 4)
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"Recommended."
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The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’
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"Recommended."
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The Wild Garden: Expanded Edition
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"The first treatise on planting beautiful gardens that feed the vast array of pollinators, now in trouble. I have planted a pollinator garden and continue to maintain, for the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees."
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rated it 5 stars
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Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth
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"Highly recommended."
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rated it 3 stars
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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"Though a dystopian science-fiction novel, relevant for charting a path through the coming troubles."
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rated it 5 stars
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Shut It Down
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"Recommended by XRMass.org, a non-violent civil disobedience movement responding to the climate crisis and 6th mass extinction event "
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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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"BostonGlobe: "Native American author (and scientist) Robin Wall Kimmerer quotes an Oregon forester she meets, who says: “To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.” There is much to heal. The wheels of environmental justice may turn slowly, but Haaland’s appointment, and the Biden administration’s new approach to federal land use, signal a turn for the better.""
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rated it 5 stars
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
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What Is Ecological Civilization?: Crisis, Hope, and the Future of the Planet
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Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
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Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
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Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
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The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the Young People at the Heart of the Climate Crisis
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
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Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It
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A People's History of Civilization
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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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The Politics of Waking Up: Power and possibility in the Fractal Age
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Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement
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Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
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Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
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"r3.0 Open Dialogues "
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This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
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End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
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Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism
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The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
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