Nonfiction about the climate crisis

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Let’s Tax Carbon

Ross Garnaut

A new path for Australia, as laid out by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower

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Into the Clear Blue Sky

Rob Jackson

A leading climate scientist explores the boldest new solutions from around the world

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Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency

Lynne Jones

An insider's candid account of our new era of mass protest, calling passionately for action against existential threats.

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Governing Forests

Arpitha Kodiveri

Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri has worked alongside many of India's forest-dwelling communities and describes how they bear the cost of both rapacious mining development and increasing pressure…

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Slick

Royce Kurmelovs

A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to…

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Pitfall

Christopher Pollon

A compelling investigation into the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources.

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Living Hot

Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld

Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes.

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In Hot Water

Dr Paul E. Hardisty

A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to…

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The Weight of Nature

Clayton Aldern

A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside out

It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth…

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Chaos in the Heavens

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fabien Locher, Gregory Elliott (trans.)

POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE

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We Will Not Be Saved

Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson

A memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe’s territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.

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Quarterly Essay 94: Highway to Hell – Climate Change and Australia’s Future

Joëlle Gergis

What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia?

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Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action

Jennifer Rayner

The climate assertions that only prevent effective action, and what could replace them

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H is for Hope

Elizabeth Kolbert, Wesley Allsbrook (illus.)

Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act

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Climate Politics in Oceania

Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, Wesley Morgan

A wake-up call to Australia and its climate credentials in our region

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Our Fragile Moment

Michael Mann

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only…

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Heat

Jeff Goodell

A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.

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The Exhausted of Earth

Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is…

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The Forest Wars

David Lindenmayer

Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips…

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Fen, Bog and Swamp

Annie Proulx

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their…

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Why Climate Breakdown Matters

Dr Rupert Read (University of East Anglia, UK)

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an…

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The Great Greenwashing

John Pabon

Saving the planet is big business.

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Eating the Earth

Justyn Walsh

Money talks, but it doesn't always tell the truth ...

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Saving the Reef

Rohan Lloyd

An original and potent social history of the Great Barrier Reef

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Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love

James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson investigates the ‘innocent’ habits of consumers and how they contribute vastly to climate change.

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Cloud Land

Penny van Oosterzee

A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the killing times and maniacal destruction of the forests…

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Urban Jungle: Wilding the City

Ben Wilson

Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban landscapes around the world, nature…

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The Carbon Almanac

The Carbon Almanac Network

Your complete guide to the undisputable facts of climate change, brought to you from hundreds of the world's leading environmental experts.

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Consumed

Aja Barber

Every item you buy remains on this planet in some form.

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Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis

Alice Bell

Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are usually about the future, but Our Biggest Experiment turns…

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Humanity’s Moment

Joelle Gergis

A personal call to action from an Australian IPCC author.

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The Climate Book

Greta Thunberg

The world's leading climate activist has gathered over one hundred voices to tell the biggest story in the world

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The Superpower Transformation

Ross Garnaut (ed.)

How Australia can become a leader in a world of zero net emissions

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Sweet in Tooth and Claw

Kristin Ohlson

A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness…

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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Gaia Vince

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live

We are facing a…

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Together We Can

Claire O'Rourke

Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time…

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Trade Winds

Christiaan De Beukelaer

Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion…

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The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

Saul Griffith

The climate action plan to create new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.

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A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate: Everyone’s Guide to the Science of Climate Change

Steven Earle

A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global…

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Climate Change and Political Theory

McKinnon

Climate change is an ethical failure. Floods, fires, droughts, and extreme weather caused by climate change are already killing people and ruining lives on a massive scale. These avoidable impacts…

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Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating

Jeff Sparrow

A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action.

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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

From the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg’s Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told…

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Sold Down the River

Scott Hamilton,Stuart Kells

Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia’s regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make a quick buck.

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Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming

Gabrielle Chan

There is no farmers and others. If you eat or wear clothes, the decisions you make influence farming.

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Ice Rivers

Jemma Wadham

The story of one woman’s passion for glaciers

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Earth Detox: How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet

Julian Cribb

Every person on our planet is poisoned every day by our chemical emissions. Julian Cribb explains the scale of the threat to individuals, human society, and life on Earth. He…

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Soil

Matthew Evans

The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy

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The Day the World Stops Shopping

J. B. MacKinnon

We can’t stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. This ground-breaking work of reporting and thought-experiment explores what would…

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Nonfiction about the climate crisis

Let’s Tax Carbon

Into the Clear Blue Sky

Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency

Governing Forests

Slick

Pitfall

Living Hot

In Hot Water

The Weight of Nature

Chaos in the Heavens

We Will Not Be Saved

Quarterly Essay 94: Highway to Hell – Climate Change and Australia’s Future

Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action

H is for Hope

Climate Politics in Oceania

Our Fragile Moment

Heat

The Exhausted of Earth

The Forest Wars

Fen, Bog and Swamp

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

The Great Greenwashing

Eating the Earth

Saving the Reef

Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love

Cloud Land

Urban Jungle: Wilding the City

The Carbon Almanac

Consumed

Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis

Humanity’s Moment

The Climate Book

The Superpower Transformation

Sweet in Tooth and Claw

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Together We Can

Trade Winds

The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate: Everyone’s Guide to the Science of Climate Change

Climate Change and Political Theory

Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Sold Down the River

Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming

Ice Rivers

Earth Detox: How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet

Soil

The Day the World Stops Shopping