My Reading List

A list of books explaining our predicament.

Overall Top 5 Books:

• Overshoot: The Ecological Basis for Revolutionary Change - William R. Catton Jr.

• Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update - Donella & Dennis Meadows

• Racing to Extinction - Lyle Lewis

• Immoderate Greatness - William Ophuls

• Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival - Richard Heinberg

Energy

• The Party’s Over - Richard Heinberg

• Peak Everything - Richard Heinberg

• GeoDestinies - Walter Ljungquist

• More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy - Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Ecology:

• Bright Green Lies - Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert

• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

• Toisinajattelijan Päiväkirjasta - Pentti Linkola

• Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun - Pentti Linkola

Collapse:

• How Everything Can Collapse - Pablo Servigne & Raphaël Stevens

• The Five Stages of Collapse - Dmitry Orlov

• Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels - Richard Heinberg

• Breaking Together - Jem Bendell

• The Collapse of Complex Societies - Joseph Tainter

• Electrifying The Titanic - Willam Ophuls

• The Tragedy of Industrial Civilization - William Ophuls

Economics/Financial:

• The End of Growth - Richard Heinberg

• Beyond Growth - Herman Daly

Anthropology:

• The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris

• An Unnatural Order - Jim Mason

• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

• The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow

• A Short History of Progress - Ronald Wright

Climate Change:

• The End of Ice - Dahr Jamail

• Hothouse Earth - Bill McGuire

• The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells

Possible futures:

• Dark Age America - John Michael Greer

• The Ecotechnic Future - John Michael Greer

• The Long Descent - John Michael Greer

*These are obviously more fictional. JMG has interesting ideas and valid points, but I believe he is severely downplaying the climate crisis and just how unlivable this planet could get.