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Non-Fiction

"The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival"

By Dennis Meredith

"The Climate Pandemic" documents that many of people's beliefs about climate disruption are myths — the most critical being that our species will somehow manage to survive the relentless onslaught of climate disruption. Other myths include that current plans to limit global heating will avoid climate catastrophe; that renewable energy will offer a major clean energy source; and that decarbonizing our energy system is a realistic goal. The book is the most comprehensive explanation of the science, technology, politics, economics and psychology of climate disruption. Its bibliography lists more than 1,700 hyperlinked entries — peer-reviewed scientific papers, books and reports from government and international agencies and scientific associations. The book explains the science of climate-driven heat waves, megadroughts, wildfires, floods and superstorms. It explores the human impacts of climate disruption: increased toxicity and disease, famine, migration, conflict and societal collapse. It documents the failure of the mainstream media, scientists, environmentalists, corporations and politicians to act on climate disruption. And it reveals how the Paris agreement, renewable energy, carbon capture, geoengineering and nuclear power are unrealistic panaceas. As our mission for the future, the book advocates that we dedicate ourselves to palliating our planet, preserving as much as we can. Glyphus, 2023. ASIN: B0BN727963. More information.

"Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History"

By Whitney Barlow Robles

Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment — a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet and the field. Her forays reveal a forgotten lineage of empirical inquiry: one that forced researchers to embrace uncertainty. This tumultuous era in the history of human-animal encounters still haunts modern biologists and ecologists as they struggle to fathom animals today. In an eclectic fusion of history and nature writing, Robles alternates between careful historical investigations and probing personal narratives. Her excavations reveal the animal foundations of human knowledge — and also show why tackling our current environmental crisis first requires looking back in time. Yale University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9780300266184. More information.

"The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans"

By Laura Trethewey

In "The Deepest Map," Laura Trethewey chronicles this race to the bottom. Following global efforts around the world, she documents Inuit-led crowdsourced mapping in the Arctic as climate change alters the landscape, a Texas millionaire’s efforts to become the first man to dive to the deepest point in each ocean and the increasingly fraught question of whether and how to mine the deep sea. A true tale of science, nature, technology and extreme outdoor adventure, "The Deepest Map" both illuminates why we love — and fear — the Earth’s final frontier and contributes to increasingly urgent conversations about climate change. Harper Collins, 2023. ISBN: 978-0-06-309995-1. More information.

"Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future"

By Gloria Dickie

Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species are threatened with extinction. Some, such as the panda bear and the polar bear, are icons of the natural world; others, such as the spectacled bear and the sloth bear, are far less known. In "Eight Bears," journalist Gloria Dickie embarks on a globe-trotting journey to explore each bear’s story, whisking readers from the cloud forests of the Andes to the ice floes of the Arctic; from the jungles of India to the backwoods of the Rocky Mountain West. W.W. Norton & Co., 2023. ISBN: 1324005084. More information.

"Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas"

By Karen Pinchin

"Kings of Their Own Ocean" is an urgent investigation that combines science, business, crime and environmental justice. It's a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science, and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma. As Pinchin writes, "as a global community, we are collectively only ever a few terrible choices away from wiping out any ocean species." Through her exclusive access and interdisciplinary, mesmerizing lens, readers will join her on boats and docks as she visits tuna hot spots and scientists from Portugal to Japan, New Jersey to Nova Scotia, and glimpse, as the author does, rays of dazzling hope for the future of our oceans. Penguin Random House, 2023. ISBN: 9780593471470. More information.

"Vanishing North: Minnesota Species at Risk of Extinction, and the People Dedicated to Saving Them"

By James Eli Shiffer, Jennifer Bjorhus and Greg Stanley

The Star Tribune in Minnesota published "Vanishing North" based on their series of the same name. Through the eyes of people dedicated to saving threatened species — like the weird globin fern, prehistoric-looking paddle fish and nearly extinct Poweshiek skipperling butterfly — the series looks at the mass extinction underway and efforts to fight it, on a very local level. The photography is stunning. SEJ members: Project editor James Eli Shiffer and reporters Jennifer Bjorhus and Greg Stanley. Star Tribune, 2023. ISBN: 979-8-218-14755-6. More information.

"Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her"

By Erika Bolstad

At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land―and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich? Sourcebooks, 2023. ISBN: 1728246938. More information.