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Find inspiring ideas, urgent warnings, and the paths we can take to protect our planet with these fiction and non-fiction books on climate change.

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  • Power Up

    An Engineer's Adventures Into Sustainable Energy

    Ali, Yasmin
    Power Up is a definitive picture of the intricate world that humanity has built, and a rallying cry to face the challenges of climate change with the power at our fingertips.
    Book, 2025Canada : Hodder, 2025. — ON ORDER 2025
  • It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?
    Book, 2023New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SCIENCE FICTION F DOCTO
  • What's Left

    Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis

    Harris, Malcolm,
    Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but only through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — 363.7387452 HAR
  • Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out.
    Book, 2023New York : Scout Press, 2023. — F LILJE
  • Sink or Swim

    How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate

    Fisher, Susannah
    Heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes and flooding caused by climate change are already impacting people and nature. Even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow, some parts of the world would still become uninhabitable, some livelihoods would…
    Book, 2025Canada : Bloomsbury, 2025. — ON ORDER 2025
  • In 2050 investigative journalist Marcus Tully is grieving his family, lost 10 years ago in a deadly heat wave in the Persian Gulf. Now the nations of the world want to elect a global leader to steer humanity through the climate apocalypse. The…
    Book, 2025New York : Del Rey, [2025] — F WEAVE
  • In 2041, it’s perilous for women to drive alone across the U.S. amid deadly storms, wildfires, and rising political tensions. Kelly, desperate to reunite with her daughter after seven years, braves the journey. Nearly 40 years later, Ava and her…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — F KORN
  • Possible

    Ways to Net Zero

    Goodall, Chris,
    Climate tech consultant Chris Goodall tackles 16 challenges that we must overcome in making a just transition to carbon neutrality. Exploring the technologies that will solve these challenges - from changing how steel, cement and fuel are made, to…
    Book, 2024London : Profile Books, 2024. — 363.73874 GOO
  • In 2050, behind the exclusive Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world, three women, employees of the billionaire/women's rights advocate responsible for this strange new society, notice cracks in the system,…
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, [2023] — F KORN
  • The Long Heat

    Climate Politics When It's Too Late

    Carton, Wim,
    The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for…
    Book, 2025London : Verso, 2025. — 363.706 CAR