Books by Michael E Mann
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
by Michael E Mann
In The New Climate War Michael E Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, analyzes why we seem to be unable to move forward with combating climate change and pins the blame firmly on corporations. Like tobacco companies and gun makers in the past, fossil fuel companies deflect attention. (A graphic novel by Mann has previously been recommended on Five Books, by Professor Naomi Oreskes of Harvard, who recommended it among her books on 'the politics of climate change').
The implications of this latest book are critical for how we, as individuals, take action. As Mann writes, "Personal actions, from going vegan to avoiding flying, are increasingly touted as the primary solution to the climate crisis. Though these actions are worth taking, a fixation on voluntary action alone takes the pressure off of the push for governmental policies to hold corporate polluters accountable. In fact, one recent study suggests that the emphasis on small personal actions can actually undermine support for the substantive climate policies needed."
“One of the brilliant things about Tom Toles’s cartoons is that he…makes people realise how really crazy some of the things that climate change deniers say are and how crazy some of the things they do are. I could go on for hours lecturing about some of these things but with Tom Toles’s cartoons you get it in an instant.” Read more...
The best books on The Politics of Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes, Scientist
Interviews where books by Michael E Mann were recommended
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
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Love in the Anthropocene
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The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
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The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
by Michael E Mann & Tom Toles
The best books on The Politics of Climate Change, recommended by Naomi Oreskes
The best books on The Politics of Climate Change, recommended by Naomi Oreskes
‘We’re on a path that is going to lead to tremendous destruction and yet most of us are going about our lives as if nothing particularly special is happening.’ The science of climate change is incontrovertible but deniers persist and political and economic solutions continue to be – systematically – frustrated. Time is running out, says Naomi Oreskes
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The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
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The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
Every year the Financial Times’s management editor, Andrew Hill, helps organize its ‘Business Book of the Year’ award, which celebrates outstanding books relating to business in the broadest sense. Here, he talks us through the 2021 shortlist, six books that will draw you in and open your eyes to how events happening in the world of business affect all of us–sometimes in very profound ways.
