numbers, not adjectives — D. J. C. MacKay

17  Books

Here are some books on or related to climate change which I really enjoyed. Although that’s not to say that I agree with all of it.

17.1 Energy

Richard Black: The Future of Energy

David J C MacKay: Sustainable Energy — without the hot air

Tom Murphy: Energy and Human ambitions on a finite planet

Jean-Marc Jancovici, Christophe Blain: World without end

John M Wallace, Peter W Hobbs: Atmospheric Science

17.2 Philosophy

Daniel Quinn: Ishmael

Peter Singer: One world now — the ethics of globalization

17.3 Cooperation

Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons

17.4 Economics and Policy

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton: Overshoot

Tim Jackson: Prosperity without Growth

Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics — seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist

17.5 General

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future we Choose

Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us

Hannah Ritchie: Not the end of the World

Simon Sharpe: Five Times Faster

created by Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book

17.6 Cli-fi

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future