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The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,931 ratings — published 2026
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,587 ratings — published 2014
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,498 ratings — published 2023
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,915 ratings — published 2002
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,896 ratings — published 2020
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,580 ratings — published 2020
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,735 ratings — published 2017
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,281 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,352 ratings — published 2018
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,987 ratings — published 2024
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,592 ratings — published 2008
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,721 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 83,007 ratings — published 2014
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,503 ratings — published 2020
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,021 ratings — published 2025
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,753 ratings — published 2024
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,475 ratings — published 2020
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,215 ratings — published 2020
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,548 ratings — published 2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,976 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,686 ratings — published 2019
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 85,040 ratings — published 2025
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,752 ratings — published 2006
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,281 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,913 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,825 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,331 ratings — published 2011
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,864 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 170,153 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,404 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,530 ratings — published 2017
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,119 ratings — published 2004
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 110,026 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,640 ratings — published 2009
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,325 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,937 ratings — published 2007
The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.94 — 34 ratings — published
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 314,863 ratings — published 2025
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.38 — 48,357 ratings — published 2022
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,895 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,334 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,925 ratings — published 1975
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.59 — 614 ratings — published 1998
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World (Studies of Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1975
Politics and Economic Policy in Western Democracies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980
What's Left? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,006 ratings — published 2007
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,253 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,088 ratings — published 2012
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.43 — 535 ratings — published 2010
The Great Crash of 2008 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2009
“Overconsumption isn’t just a personal problem; it’s a planetary one.”
― Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
― Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the unspeakable and give voice to solutions. -- K. Lee Lerner”
― Infectious Diseases: In Context
― Infectious Diseases: In Context
