Recommended readings from Janet Weil

Media activist & writer

Newsletter and blog editor for XRPDX, member of Veterans For Peace’s Climate Crisis and Militarism Project

“Global climate change, or climate crisis as many now refer to it, is indeed a global process and challenge, so I offer 5 books by authors from 5 different countries: the UK, Uganda, Sweden, the US, and Greece. The focus of each book is different, and together they offer an international range of perspectives and proposed solutions. The topics range from communications tips to activism in the Global South, from the intersection of fascist movements with fossil-fueled machines and war, to youth leaders and legal struggles, to economic environmentalism. Readers may be surprised by how much humor and human interest, as well as eye-popping stories, come through in each book.”

1. Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall

2. A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

by Vanessa Nakate

3. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

by Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective

4. They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis

By James Gustave Speth

5. In Defense of Degrowth: opinions and minifestos

By Giorgos Kallis