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Books like A World Without Ice
The best books like A World Without Ice are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Silent Spring, and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack is about climate change, glaciology, earth science. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert · Science
The Sixth Extinction is Elizabeth Kolbert's account of the mass extinction event currently underway — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Silent Spring
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Rachel Carson · Science
Silent Spring, published in 1962, is Rachel Carson's investigation of the effects of synthetic pesticides — particularly DDT and related organochlorines — on birds, fish, insects, and the broader ecological web.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein · History
Naomi Klein's central argument is that the climate crisis cannot be solved within the existing economic framework.
Both dig into climate change.
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- A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates · Science
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is Bill Gates's attempt to explain the scale of the climate problem and outline what it would actually take to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
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Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
Matt Ridley · Science
Matt Ridley's central argument is that the nature versus nurture debate has been framed wrong for over a century.
Both dig into environment.
Read the summary → - The Extended Mind
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Annie Murphy Paul · Science
The Extended Mind is Annie Murphy Paul's argument that the brain is not the only seat of cognition.
Both dig into environment.
Read the summary → - The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little · Science
The Fate of Food is Amanda Little's reporting on how food production is being reshaped by climate change and by the technologies that farmers, scientists, and food companies are deploying to respond.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells · Science
The Uninhabitable Earth is David Wallace-Wells's catalog of what climate change will do to human civilization if carbon emissions continue on or near their current trajectory.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell · Science
Jeff Goodell spent years traveling to the places most threatened by rising seas — Miami, Rotterdam, Lagos, Dhaka, Venice, the Marshall Islands — and The Water Will Come is the result of that reporting.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Whole Earth Discipline
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Stewart Brand · Science
Whole Earth Discipline is Stewart Brand's argument that the environmental movement needs to update its orthodoxies in light of climate change and the actual evidence on the technologies it has historically opposed.
Both dig into climate change.
Read the summary → - Triggers
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Marshall Goldsmith · Business
Triggers is Marshall Goldsmith's examination of why behavioral change is so persistently difficult, even for intelligent, self-aware people who genuinely want to change.
Both dig into environment.
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Books like A World Without Ice: quick answers
What are the best books like A World Without Ice?
The best books like A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A World Without Ice, such as climate change, glaciology, earth science.
What should I read after A World Without Ice?
A natural next read after A World Without Ice is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Both dig into climate change. Other strong choices are Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
What books are similar to A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack?
A World Without Ice centers on climate change, glaciology, earth science. Books with a similar feel include The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
