Bill McKibben Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Bill McKibben

Speaking of cheerful, the best writer about realistic hope, it seems to me, at the moment is Rebecca Solnit. And her most recent book was about one of my greatest literary heroes, George Orwell ... it was about his relationship with the natural world. And it’s a beautiful book.

Bill McKibben

Because I love New York City so much, my favorite of his books and my favorite novel about climate change is a book called “New York 2140,” which couldn’t be more fun and in a certain odd way more cheerful.

Bill McKibben

The global scope and historical perspective of Border and Rule... forces the reader to grapple with the relentless and ongoing use and abuse of power by rich countries and their political and economic leaders... it is devastating in its deployment of data and evidence.

Bill McKibben

You want to know a great human being? Meet my friend @AkayaWindwood, lead advisor at @ThirdActOrg and author of the just-about-to-be-released book, Leading With Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times https://t.co/jMxtrTfpKZ

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@TheLovelyEggs Oryx and crake, Margaret Atwood

Bill McKibben

If you're worried about climate anxiety among younger children, I'm hopeful this book may be useful--not by offering false hope, but by reassuring kids that there are lots of people, some of them very young, hard at work trying to make things work.

Bill McKibben

[The author] provides a fascinating history of human mobility, which was largely uninterrupted by immigration controls until the invention of the modern nation-state.

Bill McKibben

Hansen is the Paul Revere of climate change, having warned the world in congressional testimony delivered in June, 1988, that fossil-fuel emissions were warming the planet...Hansen uses past performance to predict future returns...