: 10 Must-Read Books To Understand Climate Change And How You Can Make A Difference #IndiaNEWS #Affiliate American naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau once asked, “What is the use of a house if

10 Must-Read Books To Understand Climate Change And How You Can Make A Difference #IndiaNEWS #Affiliate
American naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau once asked, “What is the use of a house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on?�?
And rightly so. With every passing day, we are inching closer to seeing the irreversible effects of climate change. The Earth’s average temperature has increased by more than 1C in a little less than 100 years. This points to the fact that the last 30 years have been the warmest in the planet’s history (or at least the past 800 years). With the surface temperature rising and the melting of Arctic ice, it is important to understand climate change.
This Earth Day, here’s a list of books that are a must-read to understand climate change:
1. The New Climate War by Michael Mann
The book explains how the fossil fuel industry had changed its tactics by shifting the burden of climate change responsibility to individuals and denying their role in it. This cautiously optimistic book says that the fundamental challenges are a result of a lack of political will. The author is a climatologist and geophysicist who works for the recognition of climate science as a field.

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2. The Climate Solution: Indias Climate-Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Mridula Ramesh
The book dwells on why women are peculiarly affected by a warming climate, how climate change poses a security threat to the Indian state and why just focussing on green sources of power is an incomplete solution for India. The author is a climate change practitioner, teacher and investor. She takes many examples from the country like the cotton fields of Punjab and eco start-ups in Bengaluru to explain the topic.

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3. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein
In this book, the author urges how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change. More than carbon, capitalism is affecting climate change and the economic system has failed to build something radically better. Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, journalist, social activist, ecofeminist and filmmaker.

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4. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Named one of the best books of the year 2019 by The New Yorker, it talks about the greater damage of climate change like food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. The ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress are also discussed. The author is an American journalist.

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5. The Nutmegs Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Nutmegs originated around a group of small volcanic islands in the east of Java, known as the Banda Islands.