McPherson dedicates her book to “young people everywhere who recognize the urgency of the environmental crisis, cherish the beauty of the earth, and demand climate action now." This book defines the terminology and science behind the climate crisis and highlights specific communities and people working to save our planet. Hothouse Earth, The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (2021). For a “Guide to building a movement that restores the planet”, read Martinez’s earlier book, We Rise (2017). But, sadly it probably won’t since there are cuss words. He asserts that “if we wait for the floodwater to breach our doorstep it will be too late.” This slim book of his speeches and lyrics written when he was a teen should be required reading in high schools to galvanize more young advocates. Martinez, the 21-year-old Indigenous climate activist and youth director of Earth Guardians, advocates for action through his organization and as a hip-hop artist. If you, or your teenager, likes hip hop but isn’t yet into activism, this is a must read. Imaginary Borders by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (2020). At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? See below for suggestions! Considered his most sentimental book, Bewilderment centers on a father and son grieving the loss of their wife/mother and bonding while they experience nature. If you find 612 pages daunting, check out Powers’s follow up book Bewilderment at a manageable 288 pages. The book is a dendrology lesson with a riveting, nuanced look at so-called bioterrorists. The stories then intertwine as characters take actions to protect trees and stop clear-cutting. The first third of the tome reads more like a collection of short stories in which each main character has a connection to trees. This hefty masterpiece about deforestation and its impact on the planet won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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(Eerily the movie “Soylent Green” takes place in 2022.) The novel is not to be confused with John Robert McNeill's nonfiction Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2001), which examines history from our environment's perspective. People are blasé to the troubles, merely driving around the fires and guzzling a water alternative called WAT-R, reminiscent of a soylent green solution to world problems. Enter a novelist whose book is being turned into a movie, but something is not right in La La Land. Kleeman's novel takes place in LA, a world on fire and experiencing extreme drought (sounds like nonfiction, but no). Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman (2021). Barack Obama named the book as one of his favorites for 2020. Robinson, a master of science fiction, hits closer to our inevitable reality than a post-apocalyptic world. His novel uses fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. How many ways are there to describe extreme heat? Robinson seems to channel thousands, each unique and compelling. The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020). Jack gathers animals to save them from the flood as their journey to survive begins. The book is narrated by adolescent Evie and she and the other children respond to what is happening better than their elders who devolve into a modern Sodom and Gomorrah: drinking, fornicating and failing to heed the warnings signs of devastating climate change because, “We thought we had more time.” Evie’s precocious little brother Jack is given a children’s Bible which he affirms is written in code. A group of old college friends bring their families together for summer vacation, but an epic storm leads to societal collapse. If you only read one book from this list, make it this masterful allegory and wakeup call from Millet, who holds a master's in environmental policy. A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet (2020).
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