Books
It is wonderfully impossible to keep up with all the non-fiction climate-related books that have been published in the last few years, not to mention the incredible number of climate fiction works that help us understand what to do today via representations of near and distant tomorrows. This list is a work-in-progress starting point of climate-related fiction and non-fiction, features (many) Canadian writers, and is organized by publication date.
Since the first Earth Day, we have, no doubt, made significant progress in addressing a range of acute environmental problems. Yet, other more pernicious threats have emerged, from climate change to global biodiversity loss; the warnings seem louder, and the edge of the precipice ever closer, as growing evidence demonstrates planetary-scale human perturbations of the Earth System.
Philippe Tortell, in Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
CLIMATE-RELATED NON-FICTION
2023
John Valliant. Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
2022
Jeremy Rifkin. The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence of a Rewilding Earth. St. Marten’s Press, 2022.
Chris Turner. How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World. Random House Canada, 2022.
Britt Wray. Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Eco-Anxiety. Vintage Canada, 2022.
2020
John Elkington. Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism. Fast Company Press, 2020.
Mark Jaccard. The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Mark Jaccard. The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Ayana Elisabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson, eds. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. One World, 2020.
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Elin Kelsey. Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis. Greystone Books, 2020.
Seth Klein. A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. ECW Press, 2020.
Michael Mann. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet. Public Affairs Books, 2020.
Tom Rand. The Case for Climate Capitalism: Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis. ECW Press, 2020.
Tortell, Philippe (Editor). Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. Openbook Publishers.
2017
Ed. Hawken, Paul (Editor.) Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Penguin Books, 2017
2016
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2016.
2015
Jeff Rubin. The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When it Bursts. Random House Canada, 2015.
2011 and earlier
Cary Krosinsky, Nick Robins, and Stephen Viederman (Editors). Evolutions in Sustainable Investing: Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership. (See in particular chapter entitled “Sustainable Investing and Canada.”) Wiley Finance, 2011.
David Suzuki & Holly Dressel: More Good News: Real Solutions to the Globa Eco-Crisis. Greystone Books, D&M Publishers Inc., 2002, 2010.
George Monbiot. Bring on the Apocalypse: Essays on Self-Destruction. Anchor Books, 2008.
George Monbiot. HEAT: How to stop the planet from burning. Doubleday Canada, 2006
CLIMATE-RELATED FICTION
Richard Powers, Bewilderment. Penguin Random House, 2021.
Jeff Vandermeer, Hummingbird Salamander. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX New York, 2021
Richard Powers, The Overstory. W. W. Norton & company, 2018. (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.)