Climate books (we probably will read many of these in months to come)
How To Blow Up a Pipeline – Andreas Malm
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
All We Can Save - ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K Wilkinson
As Long as the Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Walker
Ways of Being - James Bridle
What We Need To Do Now - Chris Goodall
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change - George Marshall
The End of Nature - Bill McKibben
Climate Justice - Mary Robinson
Between Earth and Empire - John P Clark
China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet -Yifei Li & Judith Shapiro
Extreme Cities - Ashley Dawson
Who Killed Berta Cáceres? - Nina Lakhani
Climate Change as Class War - Matt Huber
The New Enclosure - Brett Christophers
The World for Sale - Jack Farchy / Javier Blas
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
A People’s Green New Deal - Max Ajl
White Skin Black Fuel - The Zetkin Collective
Fossil Capital - Andreas Malm
Make Rojava Green Again - The Internationalist Commune of Rojava
Social Ecology and the Right to the City - Federico Venturini et al
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism - Aja Barber
Ecological Debt - Andrew Simms
Property Will Cost Us the Earth - Verso Books, ed Jesse Kindig
Under a White Sky - Elizabeth Kolbert
The Nerves and Their Endings - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion - Tansy E. Hoskins
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism - Matthias Schmelzer et al.
The Solution is Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below - Peter Gelderloos
- The Disenchanted Earth - Richard Seymour
- Parable of the Sower (fiction) - Octavia Butler
Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough - Holly Jean Buck
Tangential social justice books
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary” Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta
Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I - Contributions by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
The End of Policing – Alex S. Vitale
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise - Lola Olufemi
The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
Lost In Work: Escaping Capitalism - Amelia Horgan
Raising Free People - Akilah Richards
Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech - James Muldoon
Radical Attention - Julia Bell
Clearing The Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life - James Daschuk
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
Replace Me - Amber Husein
Tenants: The People On The Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency - Vicky Spratt
Eating Animals - Jonathan Saffran Foer
A Decolonial Feminism - Francoise Verges
What White People Can Do Next – Emma Dabiri
Capitalist Realism – Mark Fisher
The Dawn of everything - Dave Graeber
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliott
Climate Change is Racist - Jeremy Williams
Border Nations: Leah Cowan
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan - Brett Walker
Hungry City - Carolyn Steel
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep - Jonathan Crary
Magazines/Zines
It’s Freezing in LA
Where the leaves fall
FlorXL
It’s Happening Now (gal-dem)
Articles
‘Your Sea Wall Won’t Save You: Negotiating rhetorics and imaginaries of climate resilience’, Places Journal, March 2018
Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem, Monthly Review, January 2011
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance, Environmental Communication, September 2021
“Call climate change what it is: violence,” Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, April 2014
“Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein, London Review of Books, June 2016
Documentaries
Rebellion (2022) – Netflix
Podcasts
Planet B series - Novara Media
The Yikes Podcast - Mikaela Loach & Jo Becker
The Climate Question - BBC World Service
From What If to What Now - Rob Hopkins
Drilled - Amy Westervelt