THE 3 BOOKS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

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THE 3 BOOKS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson offers us a hopeful vision of the future where humans come together to solve the world’s problems, but only after an ecoterrorist group makes the alternatives and status quo less palatable. How do we unpack those values, and what do they portend for our world going forward?

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The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier
Vertical farms are among the more utopian movements emanating out of climate tech — a way to bring agriculture closer to the billions of people living in urban agglomerations. How feasible are they, and will they really work?

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The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
A heady and intensely thought-provoking series of lectures bound up in a slim volume that is just exploding with insight. Ghosh sees our culture as completely divergent from the needs of the climate today, and wonders why authors and other creatives seem completely unwilling to address the crisis that is befalling the planet.