
Amanda Little spent four years reporting on the people trying to grow food in a destabilized climate — drought engineers in Kansas, vertical farmers in Newark, lab-meat scientists in Silicon Valley. The most grounded account of what climate adaptation looks like from the supply chain inward.
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Ice cores, old shorelines and fossil pollen show how fast the climate now changes.
Data-driven look at emissions and what actually reduces them
Recommended by: Bill Gates
The demand side: what full electrification of homes and vehicles requires.
A short primer on energy: its forms, units and role in nature and economies.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
History told through energy, from muscle and fire to coal, oil and electricity.
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Bill Gates and 1 other
A novel, not nonfiction, but Powers does something none of the other books here accomplish: he makes the timescale of trees felt as an emotional experience. The result is that you finish it reading the other books differently — with a less human-centric sense of what time and loss mean.
Recommended by: Barack Obama
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