How the World Really Works The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Vaclav Smil
Published 2022
336 pages
The most popular climate change books of 2022
Books about climate change face a warming planet. Scientists and reporters explain what is happening, and novelists imagine the floods, fires and migrations to come, along with the people who adapt and resist. They are sobering, and more hopeful than you might expect. This list shows the ones first published in 2022.
See also Climate fiction
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What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill
2022 · 2023 edition
368 pages
The Climate Book The Facts and the Solutions
Greta Thunberg
2022 · 2023 edition
464 pages
Regenesis Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
George Monbiot
Published 2022
352 pages
Fen, Bog and Swamp A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Annie Proulx
2022 · 2023 edition
208 pages
The Intersectional Environmentalist How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Leah Thomas
Published 2022
192 pages
California Burning The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Katherine Blunt
Published 2022
368 pages
Nomad Century How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Gaia Vince
Published 2022
288 pages
The Most Important Job in the World
Gina Rushton
Published 2022
304 pages
The Insect Crisis Our Fragile Dependence on the Planet's Smallest Creatures
Oliver Milman
2022 · 2023 edition
272 pages
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
Julian Aguon
Published 2022
128 pages
Birdgirl A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
Mya-Rose Craig
Published 2022
336 pages
Generation Dread Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Britt Wray, Adam McKay
Published 2022
296 pages
Life on the Rocks Building a Future for Coral Reefs
Juli Berwald
2022 · 2023 edition
352 pages
The Big Switch Australia's Electric Future
Saul Griffith
Published 2022
200 pages
Marx in the Anthropocene Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito, 斎藤 幸平
2022 · 2023 edition
300 pages
Hothouse Earth An Inhabitant’s Guide
Bill McGuire, Mike Cooper
Published 2022
176 pages
Firmament The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
Simon Clark
Published 2022
236 pages
Half-Earth Socialism
Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass
2022 · 2024 edition
232 pages
The Petroleum Papers Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change
Geoff Dembicki
2022 · 2024 edition
256 pages
The Value of a Whale On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Adrienne Buller
Published 2022
350 pages
The Carbon Almanac It's Not Too Late
The Carbon Almanac Network
Published 2022
352 pages
The First Astronomers How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars
Duane Hamacher with Elders and Knowledge Holders
Published 2022
290 pages
We Are the Middle of Forever Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
Dahr Jamail, Stan Rushworth
2022 · 2024 edition
416 pages