I've read quite a lot of environmental non fiction as an environmental sciences student, but the best book on climate change I've come across has to be This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein, who also has other excellent books I think you might enjoy. (:

The Overstory by Richard Powers is brilliant! He's using many different narratives to show the importance of trees and how this love of nature connects us to the earth and one another 🌳

As I live in Australia we have just gone through extreme fires and we are now going through extreme floods the impact of climate change has become part of our everyday lives and it's definitely made more motivated to reduce my own carbon omissions. I really appreciate these book recommendations especially Aquicorn Cove and Plastic sucks, i was looking for books to give to my nephew

I read This is Not a Drill last week and then Leena posted a video about it the day I finished :D I'd recommend Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery if you want a big ol' tome on how factory farming destroys the environment!

An amazing book I listened to on audiobook last year was Dry by Neal Shusterman. I recently found it at Ollie's and had to buy it. My fiancee, who really doesn't read, listened to it with me and also loved it. Great video. 💖💖💖

I've heard The Future we Choose is good. I also thought the Uninhabitable Earth was incredible (if somewhat bleak...)

From non-fiction, I would like to recommend the excellent Drawdown (edited) by Paul Hawken. From fiction, The Sands of Sarasvati by Risto Isomäki.

This isn’t a climate change book per se, but I recently read Collapse by Jared Diamond which discusses why some past societies failed and how we can learn from their mistakes to prevent our current societies from doing the same. Impacts to the environment are a huge factor, particularly deforestation and over fishing. It also discussed how big corporations can make an impact, even a profitable one, in protecting the environment and as a result climate change. It’s a bit dense but well worth the read, though recommend starting first with his book Guns, Germs, and Steel

I've been looking for some climate change books to delve in to and this came at the perfect time!! I'm on my own sustainable journey so hope some of these will give me some more tips x

Thank you for speaking about this important topic.

I love that u mentioned Aquicorn Cove

Well done Jean, of the books you recommended I've only read one American War which gave me that sick stomach dropping feeling followed by a very dark realization of how possible its storyline is. I've added a couple books to my tbr.

I think you would also really like The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells! :)

I adored _Aquicore Cove_ - thank you again for gifting me a copy. 🥰

Thanks for the recommendations! I try living as sustainable as my student income allows me to be and it‘s such a good feeling knowing that you don‘t contribute as much to the climate change as others. What really bugs me is a friend of mine, who refuses to change anything because "there are worse people out there“ - her mindset REALLY frustrates me. Maybe I can talk her into reading one of your recommendations. xx

I recently bought This is not a drill and I'm excited to read it and hopefully getting an bit more active about climate change!

this is great, and very much needed. thank you so much for the recommendations

We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer was the most impactful read for years, last time I was this moved by Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates. Great audiobook also.

This is a great video. I'm really passionate about the environment so I will definitely pick up a few of these. And I plan to get the Aquicorn one for my little cousin.

Every video idea you come up with is so relevant and fun and interesting and you always manage to motivate me to read new things. 🙏🏼

Two recommendations. On Fire, Naomi Klein, from a political action perspective. Underland, Robert Macfarlane, an incredibly lyrical look at our impact on and under the earth. And, then another couple that are almost like classical nonfiction. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring: more than 50 years old, but more relevant now than ever. We seem to have forgotten what she taught us in the 60s. Almost anything by John Muir. His book on Yosemite is particularly interesting, especially in light of what happened to Hetch Hetchy.

'..Let the books talk about climate change!'! Wow!! Sensational video!!

Vandana Shiva "Oil not Soil" I haven't read her books yet, but her conferences are great, talks about industrial agriculture and corporate power.

This is an amazing video, thank you so much for this.

THANK YOU for making this video 💚💚💚 I’m gonna read ALL of them. I personally would recommend “this changes everything”, which focuses on how capitalism, consumerism and our modern view of the world has led to this. It’s an eye opener! It also covers why the environmental movement failed when it tried to please big companies. I would also highly recommend “scenes from the heart”, mainly written by Greta Thunberg’s mother Malena Ernman. It shows you how hard climate change affected Greta as a child, and how that affected their whole family. Very raw and real.

Just about to watch but wanted to comment straight away to say excellent topic, thank you - will be checking some of these out! X

The first thing that came to mind was Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver, which deals with the everyday life of a southern USA woman mixed who begins to learn about climate change due to natural (or unnatural, maybe) events that occur in her hometown. It was interesting also to read the city perspective of Fox news watching farmers (climate change deniers) treated with compassion and understanding, really a worthwhile read. In terms of books I haven't read my uni did a whole course on "literature in the context of climate change" which I couldn't attend as it was a masters course and I was only an undergrad, but I got hold of the reading list and remember it included Don DeLillo, White Noise and Point Omega Nathaniel Rich, Odds Against Tomorrow Jesmyn Ward, Salvage The Bones Jonathan Franzen, Freedom Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rainforest Haven't read those, but anyone who has could reply to this comment and say if they are good reads and apt to the topic.

I would recommend the biography of Wangari Maathai, uprooted. Also, Naomi Klein is great, of course. And The Overstory as well.

H The uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace wells is about climate change etc i havent read it myself but have seen it in bookshops i think its now in paperback. The kraken Wakes by john Wyndham is not directly about climate change but is about Sea levels rising as is Flood by Steven Baxter

this is great, and very much needed. thank you so much for this video

There's a wonderful graphic novel (though it's not actually a novel) by Katy Evans, Funny Weather. Am currently reading the Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells, which is scary. Also worth checking out - the work of Canadian Franke James: www.frankejames.com/

Love your work. New subscriber and good example that we all have a part to play and a responsibility to telling the truth about climate change. Also KZfaq has been called out for supporting climate change videos. It's rampart.

I heard an interview on the radio with the author of Weather and meant to put it on my tbr. Thanks for the reminder! On the subject of eco-anxiety and guilt around climate change, What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming by Per Epson Stoknes is really good. Parable of the Sower is another great fiction book with climate change playing a key role in the setting.

Jean.🖒love this video

Hi Jean, recent subscriber here! (Thanks for the videos!) I have a few fiction recommendations: 'Beacons' edited by Gregory Normington, anything by Liz Jensen and/or Sheri S. Tepper, Kim Stanley Robinson 'New York 2140'. You could look into the new subgenre of "cli-fi" (horrible abbreviation imho but useful for a Google!). Climate change non fiction: 'No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change', 'Silent Spring', 'Don't Even Think About It: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate Change' by George Marshall (who's also an entertaining speaker as well as long term environmental campaigner). Hope that's helpful :-)

The Uninhabitable Earth is an amazing and depressing read I highly recommend

I’m a climate change activist but I honestly think Greta is harmful to our movement

Why are you only reading books that agree with your opinion already? Let me know when you read a book about why global warming is a hoax. Global warming is nothing more than a democratic keyword they've trained people to respond to with specific feelings. Being more conscious, minimalist and aware of what's going on on the environment are all great, don't get me wrong. I only hope people actually educate themselves rather than only read books that agree with you. That's not education.