Under the Sky We Make: How To Be Human In A Warming World by Kimberly Nicholas, PhD ($18) We got ourselves into this mess. Can we get ourselves out of it? That’s the question Kolbert asks the thinkers who are engineering the climate of tomorrow. Get ready to dive into a world of lab-grown “super coral,” stone made from carbon emissions, and more potentially life-saving innovations. Under a White Sky: The Nature Of The Future by Elizabeth Kolbert ($28) How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates ($19.95) Author David Pogue is also the writer behind some of those “For Dummies” books, and this text is written in a similarly practical, no-nonsense style. With information on everything from how to prepare pets for global warming to how to build your home to stand up to extreme storms, it’s a jarring how-to—but one that might prove essential. How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide To Surviving the Chaos by David Pogue ($24) All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K Wilkinson ($29) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Edition) by Robin Wall Kimmerer ($35) The Fragile Earth Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder ($23.99) In the book’s opening note, McKibben writes, “Between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question. The stakes feel very high, and the odds very long, and the trends very ominous.” So as you can imagine, this one is far from a light read, but it does offer glimpses of hope. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben ($17) Wallace-Wells’ new 320-page portrayal of the near-apocalyptic future we could be in for—filled with disease, famine, and economic collapse—is meant to underscore the urgency of this crisis. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells ($18) The book is an investigative report of how government and big business worked to undermine the need for stricter environmental policies in the U.S. and beyond. It’s an upsetting glimpse into a time when we had avoided catastrophe—and chose not to. Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich ($25) A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist ($11.99) Emma received her B.A. in Environmental Science & Policy with a specialty in environmental communications from Duke University. In addition to penning over 1,000 mbg articles on topics from the water crisis in California to the rise of urban beekeeping, her work has appeared on Grist, Bloomberg News, Bustle, and Forbes. She’s spoken about the intersection of self-care and sustainability on podcasts and live events alongside environmental thought leaders like Marci Zaroff, Gay Browne, and Summer Rayne Oakes.
