Good books on energy and climate issues
1. 
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
by:
Tim Jackson
3.92 avg rating β 1,992 ratings 2. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,262 ratings 
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The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity
by:
Robert U. Ayres
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating β 4,279 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,876 ratings 11. 
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.87 avg rating β 622 ratings 11. 
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by:
Stewart Brand
4.11 avg rating β 1,313 ratings 13. 
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating β 7,789 ratings 
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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.72 avg rating β 139 ratings 
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Energy and the New Reality 1: Energy Efficiency and the Demand for Energy Services
by:
Danny Harvey
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 16. 
Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 3.75 avg rating β 114 ratings
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Hot Earth Dreams: What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive?
by:
Frank Landis
3.84 avg rating β 37 ratings 23. 
War, Economy and Society, 1939-1945 (Volume 5) (History of the World Economy in the Twentieth Century)
by:
Alan S. Milward
3.70 avg rating β 27 ratings 
23. 
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
by:
Saul Griffith
4.13 avg rating β 1,042 ratings 
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Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us 3.65 avg rating β 202 ratings
29. 
The Biofuel Delusion: The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production
by:
Mario Giampietro
3.29 avg rating β 7 ratings 29. 
This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
by:
Tzeporah Berman
4.41 avg rating β 49 ratings 29. 
Energy Beyond Oil: Could You Cut Your Energy Use by Sixty Per Cent?
by:
paul-mobbs
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 29. 
Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy
by:
Hal Harvey
4.31 avg rating β 103 ratings 33. 
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry
by:
Andrew Nikiforuk
4.23 avg rating β 60 ratings 
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
by:
Mike Berners-Lee
4.05 avg rating β 1,803 ratings 
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The Discovery of Global Warming (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
by:
Spencer R. Weart
3.79 avg rating β 316 ratings 42. 
Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear
by:
Wade Allison
4.19 avg rating β 31 ratings 42. 
Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform 4.08 avg rating β 39 ratings
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
by:
Oliver Morton
3.77 avg rating β 373 ratings 45. 
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
by:
Paul Sabin
3.69 avg rating β 389 ratings 45. 
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress
by:
Mark Jaccard
4.31 avg rating β 157 ratings 47. 
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
by:
Robert C. Allen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 254 ratings 47. 
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
by:
Steven Solomon
3.87 avg rating β 651 ratings