Important Books on MegaRisks

Hundreds of actions you can take to help save humanity and preserve a habitable Earth.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-science/how-fix-broken-planet-advice-surviving-21st-century?format=PB

Climate scientist Michael Mann presents a battle plan for how we can save the Planet.  In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real 

https://michaelmann.net/books/climate-war

 Every person on Earth is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed.  He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward, to rid our planet of these toxins.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-science/earth-detox-how-and-why-we-must-clean-our-planet?format=PB

Andrew Glikson looks at how humans have used fire to bring about the demise of Earth's ability to support life.

  The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe | Andrew Y. Glikson | Springer 

EOWilson warns us a point of no return is close.  The only solution to the "Sixth Extinction" is to increase natural reserves to half the  the Earth.  

https://www.amazon.com.au/Half-earth-Our-Planets-Fight-Life/dp/1631490826

British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future.  

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Century-Survive-Twenty-First/dp/0099436868

Colin Chartres and Samyuktha Varma trace the emerging world water crisis and what is to be done about it. https://www.amazon.com.au/Out-Water-Abundance-Scarcity-Problems-ebook/dp/B003MZ0XOI

Julian Cribb explores why today's food supply is unsustainable and the consequences - and  sets out a new path to  'renewable food' for all.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/food-or-war 

Elizabeth Kolbert gives a moving account of humanity's most lasting legacy - and what it means to be human.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History/dp/0805092994 

 It is worse, much worse, than you think.  But author David Wallace-Wells offers  an impassioned call to action. 

https://https://amzn.to/375X9ht

 Mike Berners-Lee plots a course of action out of the human existential dilemma that is practical and even enjoyable. 

https://amzn.to/3pWHkCp

 Climate scientist Dr James Hansen speak out on what climate change means for his grandchildren and everyone else. 

 https://www.amazon.com.au/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Catastrophe-Humanity-ebook/dp/B004L2KFCQ