Climate Class

Climate Change and Advocacy  APA 2187

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 This is a class I taught at Bennington College in Vermont in the spring of 2022. Below is the syllabus. (Some of the readings are listed as being in files. For the time being, I you want to particular article in files, contact dunleamark (at) aol.com

Course Objectives: This course will expose students to the various advocacy methods on the climate change issue. The course will include readings, class discussion, group projects, and hands-on advocacy efforts (e.g., legislative advocacy, organizing events, social media, public education). Students will select a particular climate change issue campaign or organization to do advocacy with. The class will address key issues with the climate movement such as environmental justice/confronting racism; regenerative agriculture; the roles of direct actions, lobbying and litigation; rights of Indigenous people; public power; carbon pricing/polluter penalty; and, a Just Transition. The course will explain the role of the various governmental decision makers and how you can impact upon the process.

Class Schedule

Class 1 – Monday, February 21, 2022

  • Introductions
  • How this class will work; review syllabus; discuss what you want to get out of this class and any operational questions
  • Extinction Rebellion PowerPoint

Required Readings:

  1. Overview of climate change https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/what-we-mean-when-we-talk-about-1-5-degrees-c/
  2. 350.org – Climate Science at a Glance – https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/global-warming#more
  3. Goodside-ebook_Educate Basic Climate Change (in files)

Class 2 – Monday, February 28, 2022

  • Overview of the Effort to Respond to Climate Change; How Bad will Climate Change Get
  • Overview of climate movement at the state, national and international level
  • COP 26 (Conference Of the Parties), Executive Orders (ClimatePresident.org), Build Back Better

Required Readings: 

  1. Fight the Fire – Chapter 2, The Science, pages 19-25; Emissions 35 -45; Wind and Solar Power – 53 – 60   https://theecologist.org/fight-the-fire
  2. ClimatePresident.org – https://www.climatepresident.org/climate-president-action-plan.pdf
  3. It takes Roots statement (COP26) – https://ggjalliance.org/updates/itr-ggj-cop26-statement/
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/climate/climate-change-ipcc-report.html

 

Optional Readings

  1. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out – Bill McKibben – Chapter 2, the Size of the board – in files
  2. Letter to Biden, People vs. Fossil Fuels – Pressure on Biden Builds: Members of Congress & Build Back Fossil Free Coalition Push for Action on Fossil Fuels Ahead of COP26 | Indigenous Environmental Network (ienearth.org) https://www.ienearth.org/elementor-73090/
  3. What is climate Justice – interview with Mary Robinson – https://roadtoparis.info/2015/07/29/qa-with-mary-robinson-what-is-climate-justice/
  4. Compilation of books and article by covering climate news collaborative  https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/essential-reading/
  5. David Wells NY Magazine – We Are Doomed https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.htmll ny times
  6. ProPublica Map about how habitability areas will change in the US – https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration
  7. The government of Maldives hold underwater summit on climate change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKoch_iEos8

Class 3 – Monday, March 7, 2022 

  • Theory of Social Change
  • Lobbying, litigation, direct action, civil disobedience, build it yourself
  • STOMP Strategic Power Analysis – Class 3 – Midwest Academy Strategy Chart – in files

Required Readings:

  1. CC_Path-to-Power.indd (communitychange.org) https://communitychange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Path-to-Power.Community-Change.112718.pdf  – read section in files
  2. What It Takes to Change Hearts and Minds – YES! Magazine (yesmagazine.org) – https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/science/2017/02/23/what-it-takes-to-change-hearts-and-minds
  3. Civil Disobedience Is the Way to Tackle the Climate Crisis | Time https://time.com/5607152/extinction-rebellion-farhana-yamin/
  4. How to build a new world in the shell of the old (theecologist.org) – https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/23/how-build-new-world-shell-old
  5. https://newrepublic.com/article/163680/occupy-wall-street-10-year-anniversary-lessons

 

Optional Readings

  1. Campaign Issue Organizing – in files
  2. Campaign Planning Handbook – in files
  3. Climate Resistance Handbook – in files
  4. Sierra Club Movement Organizing Manual -in files
  5. https://inthesetimes.com/article/should-we-fight-the-system-or-be-the-change
  6. https://medium.com/school-of-system-change/behind-the-patriarchy-beneath-the-surface-beyond-race-5ce0088b68f2 Civil rights movement
  7. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sabotage-can-be-done-softly-on-andreas-malms-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/
  8. How to write an effective letter to the editor – in files
  9. Earth First!. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_First!
  10. https://action4justice.org/legal_areas/climate-change/climate-litigation-basics/
  1. Origins of the Pipeline 3 fight (relevant to STOMP analysis) – https://www.vox.com/22333724/oil-pipeline-expansion-protest-minnesota-biden-climate-change
  2. Midwest Academy Strategy Chart (will use in class) – in files – APA 2187: Files (populiweb.com)    https://bennington.populiweb.com/router/courseofferings/10735277/folders/index
  3. https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/malm-pipeline-butler-nonviolence/

 

Class 4 – Monday, March 14, 2022 – note different room Commons 250

  • Organizing successful climate advocacy campaigns
  • Overview of different forms of advocacy; review of how-to on various advocacy techniques; and student engagement in climate advocacy efforts.
  • Steps that local community advocates can take to impact on climate change (model ordinances, purchasing renewable energy, public power)
  • Overview on key nonprofits and community groups and their tactics in the climate movement – 350 / divestment; Extinction Rebellion; Student Climate Strike; Sunrise Movement
  • Environmental justice
  • Building relationships and connections with other issues and constituencies – BLM (Black Lives Matter), peace, immigration
  • Art and climate

Required Readings:

  1. How New York Activists Banned Fracking – In These Times
  2. https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-york-fracking-ban1   Eric Weltman
  3. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/unlikely-takedown-keystone-xl
  4. https://www.stand.earth/sites/stand/files/divestinvestreport2021.pdf – in files
  5. https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/04/30/clcpa-funding-carbon-budget/
  6. NASW, MA, how to pass a bill –  https://www.naswma.org/page/legislative_process
  7. https://artistsandclimatechange.com/2019/04/23/the-creative-climate-movement/
  8. Elections and climate https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/06/16/want-to-make-an-impact-on-climate-change-focus-on-elections/

 

Optional Readings 

  1. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11112011/keystone-xl-pipeline-opponents-celebrate-victory-obama-activism-nebraska-sandhills-state-department/
  2. https://gofossilfree.org/ny/divestnytimeline/
  3. https://www.narf.org/keystone-xl/
  4. Peoples Climate March Art Builds – in files
  5. https://www.municipalsustainability.org/
  6. https://www.saneenergy.org/art
  7. Why the Climate Crisis Demands Democracy Reform | Brennan Center for Justice https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/why-climate-crisis-demands-democracy-reform
  8. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/03/complex-ambitious-demands-undermine-green-jobs-campaign-eqat/

Class 5 – Monday, March 21, 2022

  • Organizing a Student Climate Group – Guest Speaker Emily Thompson, Sunrise Movement; this will be a joint class with the Environmental Fellows with Prof. Judith Enck

Required Readings

  1.  New Hub Guide – Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9OoAhh-yOVhcRYdA5_P95vfNIh6nICVNo_W73rjHjE/edit
  2. Tips for Starting and Maintaining an Environmental Club | Do It Green! Minnesota https://doitgreen.org/topics/environment/tips-starting-and-maintaining-environmental-club/
  3. Climate Organizing – Building Effective Climate Change Movements and Campaigns (brightest.io) https://www.brightest.io/climate-organizing
  4. New Yorker on the Sunrise Movement – in files
  5. To the Movement – from Sunrise – in files

Optional Readings

  1. Bill McKibben: https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things

Class 6 – Monday, March 28, 2022 

  • Overview of the role Local, State, National, and international bodies play on the climate action agenda. Paris Climate Accords, COP26 (Conference of the Parties), IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 

Required Readings

  1. Federal Action: Congress Climate History | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (c2es.org) ; https://www.c2es.org/content/congress-climate-history/;
  2. https://www.c2es.org/content/federal-action-on-climate/
  3. Federal government activity on climate change – Ballotpedia, https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_government_activity_on_climate_change
  4. FERC into FREC – Beyond Extreme Energy – https://beyondextremeenergy.org/ferc-into-frec-campaign/
  5. State – Center for American Progress – https://americanprogress.org/article/states-laying-road-map-climate-leadership/
  6. Overview of Prior COPs (Conference Of the Parties) – in files
  7. https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
  8. https://www.vox.com/22777957/cop26-un-climate-change-conference-glasgow-goals-paris

 

Optional Readings

  1. Federal financial regulation: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/turning-heat-need-urgent-action-us-financial-regulators-addressing-climate-risk
  2. Congressional research service overview –https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46947
  3. IPCC – https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap2_FINAL.pdf
  4. State climate brief from Center for American Progress – in files
  5. https://www.municipalsustainability.org/
  6. Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/paris-global-climate-change-agreements
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference
  8. Litigation: https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/7d58ae66/climate-change-litigation-update
  9. https://awionline.org/content/how-communicate-effectively-legislators

Class 7 – Monday, April 11, 2022

  • How well does or does not the media cover climate issues?
  • How to increase media coverage of the climate emergency.
  • Be Your Own Media

Required Readings

  1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/why-is-the-us-news-media-so-bad-at-covering-climate-change
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/11/greenwash-fossil-fuels-ad-agencies
  3. https://trainings.350.org/resource/how-to-create-news-worthy-actions/
  4. Guide to writing a great news release – in files
  5. Press release tips and tricks summary – in files
  6. https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2022/04/07/why-the-ipcc-shone-spotlight-ad-agencies-still-working-with-fossil-fuel-clients


Optional Reading

  1. Media Events Workbook (good principles first section) – in files
  2. How to Organize a Virtual Press conference – in files
  3. News release template – in files
  4. See also sample releases – in files, folder, media releases

Class 8 – Monday, April 18, 2022

  • Targeting climate funding for environmental justice
  • Key Environmental Justice (EG) issues (carbon offsets, biofuels)
  • Just transition for workers and community

Required Readings

  1. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/09/22/climate-change-environmental-justice/
  2. About – Climate Justice Alliance  https://climatejusticealliance.org/about/
  3. https://climatejusticealliance.org/jemez-principles/
  4. https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/
  5. https://www.peoplesdemands.org/#read-the-demands-section (STOP at Statement on COP24 sitin)
  6. https://forestsandfinance.org/news/environmental-justice-and-human-rights-organizations-address-global-leaders-ahead-of-cop26-carbon-offsets-dont-stop-climate-change/
  7. What is a ‘just transition,’ and why do we need one? » Yale Climate Connections https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/05/what-is-a-just-transition-and-why-do-we-need-one/
  8. https://climateanalytics.org/blog/2020/black-lives-matter-the-link-between-climate-change-and-racial-justice/

 Optional Readings

  1. https://grist.org/article/labor-and-climate-justice-60-environmental-justice-groups-appeal-to-afl-cio-on-eve-of-convention/
  2. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance – (ggjalliance.org)
  3. Global Campaign for Climate Justice – https://demandclimatejustice.org/
    – platform –
  4. Biofuel or Biofraud? | Save Our Roots  https://saveourroots.org/biofuel-or-biofraud/
  5. Tree planting does not often work: https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22679378/tree-planting-forest-restoration-climate-solutions
  6. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21278245/antiracist-racism-race-books-resources-antiracism

Class 9 – Monday, April 25, 2022

  • Developing renewable energy, battery storage, conservation,
  • How fast can we transition to 100% renewable energy
  • Buildings and transportation
  • Barriers to ending fossil fuels 

Required Readings

  1. Barriers to Renewable Energy Technologies | Union of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org) https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/barriers-renewable-energy-technologies
  2. Renewable Energy vs Fossil Fuels: Learn About Costs, Subsidies & More | Inspire Clean Energy https://www.inspirecleanenergy.com/blog/clean-energy-101/renewable-energy-vs-fossil-fuels
  3. https://renewableheatnow.org/renewable-heat-now-encouraged-by-hochuls-budget-bills-to-get-fossil-fuels-out-of-buildings-urges-faster-timeline-and-more-
  4. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/565278-investing-in-public-transit-is-a-climate-imperative Sierra Club
  5. Ithaca Green New Deal https://www.npr.org/2021/11/06/1052472759/to-fight-climate-change-ithaca-votes-to-decarbonize-its-buildings-by-2030;
  6. https://www.cityofithaca.org/DocumentCenter/View/11054/IGND-Summary-02-11-2020
  7. Global100REStrategyGroup.org https://global100restrategygroup.org/

Optional Readings

  1. (note: read for class 2: Wind and Solar Power – 53 – 60   Fight the Fire https://theecologist.org/fight-the-fire)
  2. https://www.c2es.org/content/reducing-your-transportation-footprint/
  3. https://renewableheatnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RHN-legislative-package_final.pdf
  4. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/offshore-wind-is-poised-to-take-off-in-the-us-but-it-wont-be-easy

Class 10 – Monday, May 2, 2022 

  • Creative solutions to climate change – Drawdown Project, microgrids
  • Agriculture and food systems
  • Overconsumption

Required Readings

  1. https://greenisthenewblack.com/project-drawdown/  
  2. https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/what-regenerative-agriculture
  3. Farming as the Climate Changes: Soul Fire Farm, Petersburg, New York – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food Trust https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/farming-as-the-climate-changes-soul-fire-farm-petersburg-new-york/
  4. https://earthjustice.org/our_work/sustainable-agriculture
  5. https://www.powermag.com/why-microgrids-are-the-key-to-our-carbon-neutral-future/
  6. https://netimpact.org/blog/overproduction-overconsumption-consequences
  7. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/12/16/buying-stuff-drives-climate-change/

Optional Reading 

  1. https://www.stantec.com/en/ideas/content/blog/2021/microgrids-a-critical-key-to-the-energy-transition
  2. Drawdown Project 2020 review – in files
  3. Video Drawdown – https://youtu.be/QhyklIECRXE

Class 11 – Monday, May 9. 2022 

  • System Change not Climate Change
  • Green New Deal, Public Power, Ecosocialism/Capitalism

Required Readings

  1. https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
  2. The Original Green New Deal – in files
  3. Kate Aronoff – From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy – Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/from-fossil-capitalism-to-green-democracy
  4. A Path to Democratic Socialism Means a Path To Climate Justice – In These Times – https://inthesetimes.com/article/ecosocialism-ecoapartheid-climate-change-democratic-socialism-justice
  5. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/18/moral-case-destroying-fossil-fuel-infrastructure
  6. https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/points-of-unity/
  7. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/public-utilities-energy-grid
  8. A New Era of Public Power | climateandcommunity https://www.climateandcommunity.org/a-new-era-of-public-power)

Optional Readings

  1. Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal? | Howie Hawkins for our Future https://howiehawkins.us/whatever-happened-to-the-green-new-deal/
  2. https://gizmodo.com/new-york-s-public-power-bill-could-be-a-model-for-the-r-1846874758

Video

Arundhati Roy: Capitalism Is “A Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyCkFoSIwWg

Class 12 – Monday, May 16, 2022 

  • False climate Solutions
  • Carbon pricing, net zero / carbon offsets, carbon sequestration and capture, biomass, nuclear, plastics

Required Readings

  1. NY Renews False Climate Solutions – see summary – http://bit.ly/falsesolutions
  2. https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-answer-solve-climate-change
  3. Environmental Justice and Human Rights Organizations: Carbon Offsets Don’t Stop Climate Change | Amazon Watch https://amazonwatch.org/news/2021/1006-environmental-justice-and-human-rights-organizations-carbon-offsets-dont-stop-climate-change
  4. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CCS-Ad_The-Washington-Post_FINAL.pdf
  5. https://climatejusticealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Carbon-Capture-v4.pdf
  6. https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/07/20/top-5-reasons-carbon-capture-and-storage-ccs-is-bogus/
  7. https://www.seventhgeneration.com/blog/rethinking-our-climate-responsibilities-the-shift-to-real-zero
  8. https://www.ciel.org/news/over-700-groups-demand-real-zero/
  9. https://environmentalpaper.org/2021/10/over-170-groups-worldwide-stand-up-against-forest-biomass-a-false-climate-solution/

Optional Readings

  1. Why Nuclear Power Is Bad for Your Wallet and the Climate (bloomberglaw.com) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-nuclear-power-is-bad-for-your-wallet-and-the-climate
  2. https://www.c2es.org/document/cap-and-trade-vs-taxes/
  3. https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/
  4. https://progressive.org/latest/climate-crisis-need-real-zero-gerhardt-210626/
  5. https://foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ib_2003_carboncapture-web.pdf
  6. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/debunking_the_biomass_myth/
  7. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/pdfs/Forest-Bioenergy-Briefing-Book.pdf
  8. The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change, https://www.beyondplastics.org/plastics-and-climate

Class 13 – Monday, May 23, 2022

  • Is it too late?
  • The power of the fossil fuel industry
  • Climate denial
  • The lack of democracy

Required Readings:

  1. https://insideclimatenews.org/climate-101/is-it-too-late-to-stop-climate-change/
  2. https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/already-too-late-ipcc-report-says-global-warming-consequences-now-unavoidable/
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/24/oil-gas-industry-us-lawmakers-campaign-donations-analysis
  4. http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-industry-influence-in-the-u-s/
  5. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html
  6. Republicans in Congress are out of step with the American public on climate (brookings.edu)  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2021/05/10/republicans-in-congress-are-out-of-step-with-the-american-public-on-climate/

Optional Reading

  1. David Wells NY Magazine – we are doomed https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.htmll

How to Information

 

  1. Campaign Issue Organizing -in files
  2. Campaign Planning Handbook – in files
  3. Climate Resistance Handbook – in files
  4. Sierra Club Movement Organizing Manual – in files
  5. Guide to writing a great news release – in files
  6. How to write an effective letter to the editor – in files
  7. Media Events Workbook (good principles first section) – in files
  8. How to Organize a Virtual Press conference – in files
  9. News release template – in files

 

Researchers and Writers to Follow:

Dr. Mark Jacobson, Stanford University – @mzjacobson
Kevin Anderson – UK – @KevinClimate
Michael Mann – Penn State – @MichaelEMann
Leah Stokes – University of California Santa Barbara – @LeanStokes
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – https://www.ipcc.ch/ – @IPCC_CH
Bill McKibben @billmckibben
Kate Aronoff, New Republic  @KateAronoff
Alexander Kaufman, Huntington Post  @AlexCKaufman
Naomi Klein, @NaomiAKlein
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, The Sixth Great Extinction, @ElizKolbert (doesn’t tweet much)
Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org @insideclimate

Groups to follow

Sunrise Movement – www.sunrisemovement.org, https://www.facebook.com/sunrisemvmt

350.0rg  https://www.facebook.com/350.org
350VT – 350Vermont.org  https://www.facebook.com/350Vermont @350VT
Climate advocates Bennington – https://www.climateadvocatesbennington.org; https://www.facebook.com/groups/954094981401260
Vermont Youth Lobby – https://www.facebook.com/youthlobbyvt/  http://www.youthlobby.org/ – climate, jobs, justice
Food and Water Watch – www.foodandwaterwatch.org – https://www.facebook.com/FoodandWaterWatch
Indigenous Environmental Network  www.ienearth.org  https://www.facebook.com/ienearth
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network  https://www.wecaninternational.org/  https://www.facebook.com/WECAN.Intl
Hip Hop Caucus https://www.facebook.com/hiphopcaucus/
Climate Justice Alliance  https://climatejusticealliance.org/ https://www.facebook.com/CJAOurPower
Center for Biological Diversity  www.biologicaldiversity.org – https://www.facebook.com/CenterforBioDiv
Friends of the Earth – foe.org – https://www.facebook.com/friendsoftheearth

Green Education and Legal Fund – gelfny.org – www.facebook.com/nygreenelf
Project Drawdown   https://drawdown.org/
Climate Reality Project – https://www.climaterealityproject.org/  https://www.facebook.com/climatereality
Citizens Climate Lobby – https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ https://www.facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobby

Beyond Extreme Energy – https://beyondextremeenergy.org/  https://www.facebook.com/BeyondExtremeEnergy
Extinction Rebellion – https://rebellion.global/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc
African Climate Change Alliance – https://africanclimatealliance.org/; https://www.facebook.com/africanclimatealliance

Asian Pacific Environmental Network – https://apen4ej.org/; https://www.facebook.com/APEN4EJ
Beyond Plastics, https://www.beyondplastics.org/, https://www.facebook.com/beyondplasticsaction
Renewable Heat Now – @RenewableHeatNow, https://renewableheatnow.org/

Optional Future Reading

 Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders by Si Kahn
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice In An Age Of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva                           Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Shut it Down by Lisa Fithian
Fight the Fire: Green New Deal and Global Climate Jobs by Jonathan Neale
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann,
Falter: Has The Human Game Begun To Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben, 2019
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a New Deal by Naomi Klein, 2019.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Peril by Amitav Ghosh
This is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century by Mark and Paul Engler
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
Ministry for the Future by Kim Staley Robinson
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, by Dahr Jamail
Compilation of books, articles and research websites by covering climate news collaborative  https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/essential-reading/