Over the Christmas holiday of 2020, I tried to bring myself up to speed on climate change. What I have learned made me gravely concerned. It was much much worse than I had thought. In fact, one reason that I decided to go back to work in China is to avoid flying every year to visit my family.
This page lists resources which helped me to realize how serious the situation is. Hopefully it can also wake you up.
Books
If you only have time to read one book about climate change, then you should read Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas. It describes in chilling details the different scenarios given different levels of warming and why our action today is crucial for the continuation of humanity.
Other good books include
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells – A loud and clear wake up call.
- The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery – The part on climate science is still sound 13 years after its publication.
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg Young people voice gives you some hope.
- Six Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert – A beautiful elegy for all the spaces that have disappeared and will almost surely disappeared in the near future because of human activities.
Documentary Films
My new favourite documentary film on climate change is Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World. It is hard not be moved by Greta’s courage to tell the truth while the whole world is self-deluding.
- BBC – Climate Change – The Facts
- BBC – Extinction – The Facts
- BBC – Horizon – 7.7 Billion People and Counting
- Netflix – David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
- Endgame 2050
- BBC – Horizon – Should I Eat Meat? - How to Feed the Planet
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Podcasts
Websites
- SkepticalScience – Learn the scientific evidences of climate change.
- If you want to do something about climate change, check GivingGreen, this and this.