Citizens’ Climate Education: Adult Books About Climate Change for Holiday Giving

By Christine Kramer

With Christmas nearly a day away, I’ve compiled a listing of books as some potential last-minute reward concepts. Many of those e-book recommendations come from our congressman, Rep. Mike Levin, an environmental legal professional, his staffer Colton Roughen, in addition to my husband Larry Kramer, who reads voraciously on local weather change, and some from me.

John Grant’s 2009 e-book Debunk It! Fake News Edition: How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation, is intendedfor adults—however helpful for teenagers—and explains use vital pondering abilities to establish dangerous proof and poor arguments.

Grant summarizes the rhetorical tips individuals use to mislead, and presents recommendation on coping with individuals who deliberately misinform.

Roughen suggests 21 Lessons for the twenty first Century by Yuyval Noah Harari.

“Great comprehensive book about living in this time that also includes some perspectives on the climate and environment,” Roughen describes of the 2018 e-book.                             

Katharine Hayhoe, a Christian conservative local weather scientist, talks about how our decisions will decide our future in her 2021 e-book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. The writer has additionally led TED Talks and has a collection on YouTube for younger individuals known as Global Weirding. 

Andrew J. Hoffman examines what causes individuals to reject or settle for the scientific consensus on local weather change in How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate.

Shi-Ling Hsu examines the 4 main approaches to curbing CO2 and demonstrates why a carbon tax is at the moment the best coverage in The Case for a Climate Tax: Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy.

Michael T. Klare’s 2019 e-book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, reveals how the U.S. army sees the local weather menace as imperiling the nation on a number of fronts directly.

UC Irvine writer Shahir Masri solutions many frequent misconceptions about local weather change in Beyond Debate: Answers to 50 Misconceptions on Climate Change. The e-book is appropriate for a youthful viewers, because it serves as a terrific first dive into the topic.

David Remnick’s The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change covers three a long time of New Yorker essays about local weather change. It consists of Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” which popularizes each the science and politics of local weather change for a common viewers.

One of Larry’s recommendations is Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, a e-book by Edward O. Wilson. The e-book, he says, “makes the case that about half the Earth should be left natural. It may seem unrealistic until you realize that about 40% of San Juan Capistrano is open space.”

Chris Kramer is a longtime resident of San Juan Capistrano and a member of the South Orange County chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby/Education. She and her husband, Larry, have moved 26 occasions of their married life, together with to India (Andhra Pradesh) and Africa (Ghana). She has a MLIS from University of Hawaii and a BA from University of Michigan (Go Blue).