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Books like The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The best books like The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, and The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell is about climate change, sea level rise, urban vulnerability. 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 → - 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.
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.
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- 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - 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 → - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science
A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Pattern Language
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Christopher Alexander · Science
A Pattern Language is an extraordinary attempt to describe, in systematic form, the conditions that make human habitats feel alive.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - A Philosophy of Software Design
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A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout · Science
John Ousterhout's central claim in this book is that the greatest limitation in software development is our ability to manage complexity, and that almost every problem in large systems can be traced back to complexity that was unnecessary and could have been prevented.
A kindred science read.
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Books like The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World: quick answers
What are the best books like The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World?
The best books like The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell are The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, such as climate change, sea level rise, urban vulnerability.
What should I read after The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World?
A natural next read after The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Both dig into climate change. Other strong choices are This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
What books are similar to The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell?
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World centers on climate change, sea level rise, urban vulnerability. Books with a similar feel include The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
