BOOKS
Recently published books that you might want to check out, read, and/or share with others:
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, by Dana R. Fisher
What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Climate Action for Busy People, by Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Invisible Ink: Writing from the Edge of Extinction, by Leo Joubert
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It, by Genevieve Guenther
The Solutionary Way: Tranform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better, by Zoe Weil
Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World, by Elizabeth Sawin
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, by Clayton Page Aldern
Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul, by Auden Schendler
Life as We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World, by Bill Weir
The Gift of a Broken Heart: How Our Grief Can Connect Us, by Bryan Welch
Troubled Waters (fiction), by Mary Annaise Heglar
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, by Anne Applebaum
On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder (He also wrote On Tyranny.)
Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace, by Elizabeth Neumann
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, by Talia Lavin
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy, by Stuart Stevens
Also, to better understand our current political era from a historical perspective, you might also want to read some of Hannah Arendt’s classic books, such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, and A Report on The Banality of Evil, or other people’s books about fascism, dictatorship, Police State violence, or theocracy. And to see parallels to today presented through very prescient fiction, make sure you’ve read classics like 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, Parable of the Sower (Butler), and Animal Farm.
FILMS
New documentary films that you might want to watch or mention to others:
- Zurawski v Texas
- Bad Faith and God & Country
- Bad River
- The Grab
- Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (Netflix)
- Wilding
- The Climate Restorers
- Nuked
- #UNTRUTH
- Vigilantes, Inc: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen (free)
- The Officials (free; short film)
- Stopping the Steal (MAX/HBO)
I add more books and films to this list as the year goes on and I learn about others that seem important and compelling.
Do you have favorite books or authors or films to recommend? Please mention them in the Comments.
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