Fifteen top books about climate change

Adrienne Westenfeld is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn.

At Esquire she tagged fifteen essential books about climate change, including:

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh

In this surprising synthesis of disciplines, a novelist accustomed to writing climate fiction examines history, literature, and politics to understand why our foremost thinkers so often fail to confront the climate crisis. He argues that there lies “an imaginative and cultural failure” at the heart of the climate crisis, as storytellers and public intellectuals eschew the vital, "unthinkable" task of grappling with this singular moment. In a galvanizing and clear-eyed call to action, he urges that we must find artistic and cultural frameworks to move through and combat this crisis together, as going it alone spells our doom.

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