Resources — hothouse bookclub

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Climate books

All We Can Save - ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K Wilkinson

A People’s Green New Deal - Max Ajl
As Long as the Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Walker
Between Earth and Empire - John P Clark
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet -Yifei Li & Judith Shapiro
Climate Capitalism - Akshat Rathi
Climate Change as Class War - Matt Huber
Climate Justice - Mary Robinson
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism - Aja Barber
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change - George Marshall
Ducks - Kate Beaton
Down to Earth - politics in the new climate regime - Bruno Latour
Ecological Debt - Andrew Simms
Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough - Holly Jean Buck
Extreme Cities - Ashley Dawson
Flight behaviour - Barbara Kingsolver
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming - Andreas Malm
How To Blow Up a Pipeline – Andreas Malm
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Make Rojava Green Again - The Internationalist Commune of Rojava
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
On Fire - Naomi Klein
Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit
Parable of the Sower (fiction) - Octavia Butler
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villians - Bethany Brookshire
Property Will Cost Us the Earth - Verso Books, ed Jesse Kindig
Slow Down - how degrowth communism can save the earth - Kohei Saito
Social Ecology and the Right to the City - Federico Venturini et al
The Age of Resilience - Jeremy Rifkin
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion - Tansy E. Hoskins
This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
The Disenchanted Earth - Richard Seymour
The End of Nature - Bill McKibben
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism - Matthias Schmelzer et al.
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh
The Lost Rainforests of Britain - Guy Shrubsole
The Nerves and Their Endings - Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
The New Enclosure - Brett Christophers
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
The road - Cormac McCarthy
The Solution is Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below - Peter Gelderloos
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace Wells
The World for Sale - Jack Farchy / Javier Blas
Under a White Sky - Elizabeth Kolbert
Ways of Being - James Bridle
What We Need To Do Now - Chris Goodall
White Skin Black Fuel - The Zetkin Collective
Who Killed Berta Cáceres? - Nina Lakhani
Who Owns The Wind - David McDermott Hughes
Wild Souls - Emma Marris
Wild Wood - Roger Deakin

Tangential social justice books

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep - Jonathan Crary
A Decolonial Feminism - Francoise Verges
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliott
Alt Reich - Nafeez Ahmed
Border Nations: Leah Cowan
Capitalist Realism – Mark Fisher
Clearing The Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life - James Daschuk
Climate Change is Racist - Jeremy Williams
Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I - Contributions by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth
Eating Animals - Jonathan Saffran Foer
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise - Lola Olufemi
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell
How to Resist Amazon & Why - Danny Caine
Hungry City - Carolyn Steel
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times - Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery
Lost In Work: Escaping Capitalism - Amelia Horgan
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech - James Muldoon
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary” Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta
Radical Attention - Julia Bell
Raising Free People - Akilah Richards
Replace Me - Amber Husein
Split: Class Divides Uncovered - Ben Tippet
Tenants: The People On The Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency - Vicky Spratt
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
The Dawn of everything - Dave Graeber
The End of Policing – Alex S. Vitale
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism - George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye
This System Is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict - Xander Dunlap
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan - Brett Walker
What White People Can Do Next – Emma Dabiri

Articles

Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem, Monthly Review, January 2011
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance, Environmental Communication, September 2021
‘Your Sea Wall Won’t Save You: Negotiating rhetorics and imaginaries of climate resilience’, Places Journal, March 2018
“Call climate change what it is: violence,” Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, April 2014
“Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein, London Review of Books, June 2016