Climate Change
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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A Brief History of the Earth’s ClimateEveryone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change |
A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global … | Steven Earle | 210 | 2021 | View |
A Good WarMobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency |
Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a … | Seth Klein | 465 | 2020 | View |
About Canada: The Environment |
As the Earth veers toward a biological tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become scarcer and as climate change threatens our survival, how is Canada responding? … | Linda Pannozzo | 176 | 2016 | View |
Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … | Marq de Villiers | 378 | 2018 | View |
NEW! Border and RuleMigration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism |
In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered … | Harsha Walia | 320 | 2021 | View |
ChangemakersEmbracing Hope, Taking Action, and Transforming the World |
With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It’s all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. The antidote to fear and … | Fay Weller; Mary Wilson | 208 | 2018 | View |
Climate@Work |
Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards … | Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 200 | 2013 | View |
NEW! Earth for AllA Survival Guide for Humanity |
Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 218 | 2022 | View |
Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
Facing the Climate EmergencyHow to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth |
As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are … | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 162 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Future on FireCapitalism and the Politics of Climate Change |
Climate change is already affecting millions of people. Governments talk about taking action to limit global heating to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but the greenhouse gas … | David Camfield | 128 | 2022 | View |
Getting to ZeroCanada Confronts Global Warming |
In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … | Tony Clarke | 248 | 2018 | View |
NEW! Human PermacultureLife Design For Resilient Living |
As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to … | Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon | 242 | 2020 | View |
NEW! I Want a Better CatastropheNavigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor |
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown … | Andrew Boyd | 422 | 2023 | View |
I’m Right and You’re an IdiotThe Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up |
The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles … | James Hoggan | 275 | 2016 | View |
Lost FeastCulinary Extinction and the Future of Food |
When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. … | Lenore Newman | 308 | 2019 | View |