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Books like The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells is about climate change, extinction, politics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Read the summary → - Enlightenment Now
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Steven Pinker · Science
Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker's argument that the ideals of the Enlightenment — reason, science, humanism, and progress — have been responsible for a dramatic and continuing improvement in human wellbeing across virtually every measurable dimension, and that these ideals are under threat from counter-Enlightenment movements on both the left and the right.
Read the summary → - 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.
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