Eight top books about a planet in peril

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. His most recent novel is Gun Island.

Ghosh is also the author of The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction.

At the Guardian, he tagged eight notable books about a planet in peril, including:

Dahr Jamail’s The End of Ice is another unflinching attempt to grapple with almost incomprehensible realities. Jamail travels widely and listens closely to scientists, and to people whose ways of life are threatened by ecological breakdown. “The grief for the planet does not get easier,” he writes. “Returning to this again and again is, I think, the greatest service I can offer in these times.”

Read about another entry on the list.

Also see Bill McKibben's five books to read if you care about the planet and Sarah Boon's six notable books about climate change.

--Marshal Zeringue