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Books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The best books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster are A Brief History of Time, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates is about climate change, technology and innovation, energy systems. 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.
- A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - 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 → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred science read.
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- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Ice
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Henry Pollack · Science
Henry Pollack is a geophysicist at the University of Michigan who spent decades studying the Earth's heat flow and was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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.
Both dig into policy.
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 → - Poverty, by America
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Matthew Desmond · Economics
Poverty, by America is Matthew Desmond's follow-up to Evicted, and it makes a more explicit and polemical argument: poverty in the United States is not a natural condition or a problem of insufficient resources.
Both dig into policy.
Read the summary → - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi · History
Stamped from the Beginning is Ibram X.
Both dig into policy.
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Books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: quick answers
What are the best books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster?
The best books like How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates are A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, such as climate change, technology and innovation, energy systems.
What should I read after How to Avoid a Climate Disaster?
A natural next read after How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. A kindred science read. Other strong choices are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.
What books are similar to How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates?
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster centers on climate change, technology and innovation, energy systems. Books with a similar feel include A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
