We’re
living in the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth, while key
ecological systems like oceanic currents and weather patterns are being
destabilized by climate change. What will happen as ecological collapse
accelerates and as governments and corporations continue to fail in their
responses?
Kim
Stanley Robinson’s book explores a near-future
scenario in which, as millions die in climate disasters, organized groups of
“climate militants” begin assassinating fossil fuel company executives and
sabotaging key industrial facilities. This catalyzes transformations in the
entire global economy, shifting the course of the world.
While
Robinson has more faith in the role of technology and finance than I do, this
book is a fascinating thought experiment, especially in regard to the new,
emerging revolutionary potential of climate refugees.
“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite…
This
book tackles the phenomenon of socially responsible corporations, ESG
(Environmental and Social Governance), and business sustainability efforts.
Bakan argues that while corporate messaging has changed, global capitalism
continues to be built on the destruction of the natural world, exploitation of
workers, inequality, and pollution.
A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.
“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Over the last decade and a half, business leaders have been calling for a new kind of capitalism. With income inequality soaring, wages stagnating, and a climate crisis escalating, they…
This book explains why Hawaii is not a US state but rather an illegally
seized foreign country occupied in violation of international law.
My friend Anne Keala Kelly has been an activist and
filmmaker on the front lines of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement for many
years, and her book provides a brilliant,
engaging, and easily accessible overview of the history of Hawaii's invasion and
annexation.
Bright
Green Lies makes the case that techno-fixes like solar and wind energy,
electric cars, efficiency programs, and green cities are designed to sustain
industrial civilization, the way of life that is killing the planet. When we set
aside these lies, we will find ourselves where we should
have been all along, in alignment with the earth and with the powerful,
wonderful, beautiful, creative processes that have made life on this planet
what it is.
