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Natural Resources

There are a lot of great books about natural resources and climate change. Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken is the grandfather of the connection between capitalism and the environment. It is also important to me as I met Paul whilst at Cambridge University and did some research for this book. Paul made me realise that it was not enough to be an environmentalist - you needed to create profitable companies that were self sustaining to make real change.

 There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years. by Mike Berners-Lee and The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future David Wallace-Wells are thoroughly depressing to read but worth reading none the less. Read them with a good bottle of wine by your side. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein. Naomi is another very popular writer and is a key critic of capitalism in general. In this book she discovers climate change.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: By Charles Darwin - Illustrated by Charles Darwin. Darwin is surprisingly readable. The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane. Nick is an enthusiastic writer and in The Vital Question he asks how life evolved.   The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin. Everything by Neil is great. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is quite a ubiquitous writer and I have seen his books on the shelves of a number of friends. Sapeins is probably his best work.

There are so many good books here. Enjoy them all!

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

Naomi Klein, Liza Ross,

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

Berners-Lee, Mike

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

David Wallace-Wells, Penguin Books Ltd

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

Carroll, Sean B.

What Happens Next? Conversations from MARS

Adam Savage, Audible Original

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)

Harper, Kyle

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

Christian, David

Science of Interstellar

Thorne, Kip

Forces of Nature

Professor Brian Cox

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Kolbert, Elizabeth

Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos

Cox, Brian

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Rutherford, Adam

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: By Charles Darwin - Illustrated

Charles Darwin

The Joy of Science

Robert M. Hazen, The Great Courses

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?

Lane, Nick

History Future Now

Fischer, Tristan

The Gene: An Intimate History

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Harari, Yuval Noah

The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence

Robert M. Hazen

The Nature of Matter: Understanding the Physical World

David W. Ball

Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity

Steven Stoft

Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life

Adam Rutherford

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

Roberts, Alice

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

Wagner, Andreas

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

Fara, Patricia

The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure

Neil Shubin

In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade

Damien Ma, William Adams

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate our Lives

Colin Tudge

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution

Richard Fortey

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World

Ian Stewart, John Davey

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Al Gore

What on Earth Evolved? ... in Brief: 100 Species That Have Changed the World

Christopher Lloyd

What on Earth Happened?... in Brief: The Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day

Christopher Lloyd

The What on Earth? Wallbook: A Timeline from the Big Bang to the Present Day

Christopher Lloyd, Andy Forshaw

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance

Nessa Carey

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy

Paul Gilding

The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true

Richard Dawkins, Dave McKean

The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World: The Global Race for Energy, Security, and Power

Daniel Yergin

The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans

Mark Lynas

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures)

Paul N. Edwards

The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World

Michael Pollan

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Clive Ponting

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future

Thomas Friedman (Author)

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene (Author)

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science)

Brian Greene (Author)

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin (Author)

A Climate Modelling Primer

Kendal McGuffie (Author), Ann Henderson-Sellers (Author)

The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order

Paul Roberts

Making Competition Work in Electricity

Sally Hunt

Natural Capitalism

Paul Hawken, et al


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