For the Love of Gaia
- Updated 4 months ago
- 31 Books
A curated collection of must-read books exploring humanity's relationship with Earth, the unfolding climate crisis, and the pathways to a sustainable future. These works traverse a range of perspectives—systemic critiques of capitalism and industrialization, heart-wrenching narratives of collapse and biodiversity loss, and inspiring visions of hope through innovative solutions and ancient wisdom.
From the hard truths of ecological limits and the science of climate change to the poetic beauty of rewilding and the practicalities of redesigning our systems, this list celebrates the urgency and wonder of living on a planet worth fighting for. Whether you seek to deepen your understanding, reimagine the future, or find hope amidst the chaos, this list offers something for everyone who cares about the fate of our shared home.
| #1 |  Thinking in systems : a primer
| 4.12 | 100 reads | |
| #2 |  Overshoot
| 4 | 2 reads | |
| #3 |  This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
| 4.03 | 52 reads | |
| #4 |  Merchants of Doubt
| 4.06 | 27 reads | |
| #5 |  Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
| 4 | 9 reads | |
| #6 |  The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
| 4.04 | 137 reads | |
| #7 |  The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
| 4.08 | 14 reads | |
| #8 |  Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
| 4.07 | 10 reads | |
| #9 |  Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
| 3.14 | 8 reads | |
| #10 |  The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
| 4.13 | 17 reads | |
| #11 |  The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| 3.89 | 80 reads | |
| #12 |  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.54 | 250 reads | |
| #13 |  The Wizard and the Prophet
| 4.12 | 29 reads | |
| #14 |  Doughnut Economics
| 4.17 | 9 reads | |
| #15 |  Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
| 4 | 28 reads | |
| #16 |  All We Can Save
| 4.47 | 25 reads | |
| #17 |  Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
| 4.17 | 22 reads | |
| #18 |  Half-Earth
| 4 | 6 reads | |
| #19 |  Drawdown | 4.5 | 9 reads | |
| #20 |  Silent Spring
| 3.79 | 75 reads | |
| #21 |  Limits to Growth
| 4.25 | 5 reads | |
| #22 |  The Limits to Growth Revisited
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #23 |  Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #24 |  2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #25 |  Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water
| 4.63 | 21 reads | |
| #26 |  Bird on Fire Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
| 3 | 1 read | |
| #27 |  The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
| 4.05 | 12 reads | |
| #28 |  Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis
| 0 | 0 reads | |
| #29 |  Inconspicuous Consumption
| 4 | 3 reads | |
| #30 |  Less is More
| 4.28 | 25 reads | |
| #31 |  The New Map
| 3.65 | 12 reads |