The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

THE CLIMATE BOOK by Greta Thunberg is sure to draw attention just as its young compiler often does. Subtitled “The Facts and the Solutions,” Thunberg has gathered essays from an remarkable array of experts including Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction), Naomi Oreskes (The Big Myth), Bill McKibben (Falter), and a range of international climate scientists, activists, and professors. The topics covered are varied, too, with chapters on How Climate Works, How Our Planet is Changing, and How it Affects Us. Some of the questions which are addressed include: What happens at 1.5, 2 and 4 degrees C of warming? Or Is the Future Electric? There are also sections on Wildfires, Dangerous Weather, The Amazon, Antibiotic Resistance, and The Challenge of Transport, to name just a very few. Chapter 4 includes over two dozen selections which highlight What We’ve Done About It while Chapter 5 details roughly twenty ideas on What We Must Do Now (like Changing Our Diets, Rewilding, and Decarbonization). Thunberg writes (and is quoted in a review from NPR): "No entity other than the media has the opportunity to create the necessary transformation of our global society." She is an effective, relatable spokesperson, especially when combining her voice with a 100 others in THE CLIMATE BOOK. The endnotes were so extensive that they are available online and the text is filled with graphs and diagrams. THE CLIMATE BOOK received starred reviews from Booklist (“a definitive book on climate change now”) and Kirkus (“Vital reading”).

Published by Columbia Global Reports, MISEDUCATION by Katie Worth is subtitled: How Climate Change Is Taught in America. Worth is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning investigative journalist and while her work is sometimes rather academic in tone, she includes numerous engaging anecdotes and raises key questions about curriculum and textbook selection. Highly relevant in this time of increasing debate over instructional content and bans on books in school libraries, Worth includes chapters on topics like Science and Doubt, the Teachers, the Standards, and Selling Kids on Fossil Fuel. MISEDUCATION is extremely well-researched and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (“Policymakers and educators alike will find much to consider.”). Villanova University included Worth in their year long program on climate change; this video shares some statistics and charts from her work.