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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Despite her father's disapproval, sixteen-year-old Eliza, displaced by Hurricane Harvey, throws herself into environmental activism at her new highschool, where she meets Javi, who shares her experience of climate-related trauma and helps her cope with the emotional impact of ecological disasters."--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Michael E. Mann, who has been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of his career. He has witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions.
Portraying the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Mann's...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A . . . generational perspective on why climate anxiety is completely natural and necessary, and how we can be stronger for it. Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise everywhere, with few resources to address them. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to paralysis, burnout and avoidance. In 'Generation Dread', Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these complicated...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, he writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind": the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The challenges facing our earth can feel overwhelming--recent research shows that more than 70% of Americans are worried about climate change and 51% say they feel helpless. Among millennials and Gen Z the numbers are even higher. How to Keep Your Cool While the World Is On Fire offers ten steps to help nourish, ground, and inspire anyone who is worried about climate change. Filled with exercises and reflection questions, the steps help readers process...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Today, about 98 percent of scientists affirm that climate change is human made, and about 2 percent still question it. Despite that overwhelming majority, though, about half the population of rich countries, like ours, choose to believe the 2 percent. And, paradoxically, this large camp of deniers grows even larger as more and more alarming proof of climate change has cropped up over the last decades. This disconnect has both climate scientists...
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Language
English
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"Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face-to-face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world's leading climate scientists and the people who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals....
