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A globe-trotting, deeply human look at our changing planet that balances the gravity of ecological crisis with the spark of human resilience. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Adventures in the Anthropocene.
- sobering
- expansive
- awe-inspiring
- grounded
- 01
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
A sobering, globe-trotting journey through deep time and fragile ecosystems that fundamentally alters how you view humanity's footprint.
- 02
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
A wry, sobering travelogue through the bizarre, highly engineered landscapes of the Anthropocene.
- 03
Big History
Cynthia Stokes Brown · 2007
A sweeping, interdisciplinary journey that shrinks the cosmos into an accessible mosaic of deep time and human ecology.
- 04
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
A fiercely urgent wake-up call that transforms climate dread into a demand for radical systemic change.
- 05
Learning to die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton
A fierce, concise, and philosophical confrontation with the grim realities of climate change that ultimately searches for a reimagined humanism.
- 06
A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes
A sobering but ultimately hopeful fireside chat with a beloved naturalist about the fate of our shared home.
- 07
Losing Earth
Nathaniel Rich
A gripping, infuriating historical thriller about the decade we almost saved the world, and the human flaws that stopped us.
- 08
The Precipice
Toby Ord
A sobering yet awe-inspiring confrontation with the fragility of our species and the staggering moral weight of our long-term future.
- 09
Novacene
James Lovelock
A serene, visionary glimpse into a future where artificial intelligence and the Earth form a harmonious, post-human partnership.
- 10
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
A tender, open-hearted catalog of the human experience that finds profound meaning in the mundane.
- 11
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
A relentless, white-knuckled plunge into the terrifying realities of our climate future that demands you look away from nothing.
- 12
The mushroom at the end of the world
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
A poetic, foraging journey through the ruins of capitalism to find unexpected life, resilience, and connection.
