Readings

Journalism 

Dawson, Ashley. “Cape Town’s water has a new apartheid.” The Washington Post, 10 July 2018. 

Klein, Naomi. “Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate” (2014)(Journalism)

Kolbert, Elizabeth. “The Sixth Extinction?The New Yorker (8 May 2009). (Scientific Journalism)

Solnit, Rebecca. “Climate Change is Violence.” The Guardian (2014) (Journalism)

Wallace-Wells, David. “The Uninhabitable Earth.” The New York Times Magazine, 9 July 2017.

Watts, Jonathan. “We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe.” The Guardian, 8 Oct. 2018. (Journalism)

Academic Articles/Chapters

Banerjee, Subhankar. “Long Environmentalism” (ANWR) (Env Hum) (2017)

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses” (2009). (History)

Crutzen, Paul, et al. “The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of 

Nature?” (2007). (Science)

Dagget, Cara. “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47.1, pp. 25-44. (2018) (Political Science)

Demos, T.J. “Capitalocene Violence” in Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today. Sternberg Press, 2017. (Art/Cultural Studies)

Malm, Andreas. “Long Waves of Fossil Development: Periodizing Energy and Capital.” Materialism and the Critique of Energy. (Ecology/Geography) 

Moser, Susanne C. and Lisa Dilling. “Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap” (from the Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society)

Norgaard, Kari Marie. “Climate Denial: Emotion, Psychology, Culture and Political Economy.” The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, edited by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg. OUP, 2011, pp. 399-413. (Sociology)

Robin, et al. “Three Galleries of the Anthropocene” (Art History)

Routledge, Paul. “Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities.” Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Tsing, Anna. “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species.” Environmental Humanities 1 (2012), 141-54. (Anthropology)

Whyte, Kyle Powys.Is It Colonial Deja Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice.” Humanities for the Environment: Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice. Eds. Joni Adamson and Michael Davis. Routledge, 2016.

Excerpts/Chapters from Books 

Atwood, Margaret. “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet.” I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet, edited by Mark Martin. Verso, 2011. 

Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) 

Hansen, James. Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe

and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. (2009) (Public Science)

Heise, Ursula K. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (2016) 

Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior (2012).(Humanities, Fiction)

And/Or another selection from Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities.org (Optional) 

Klein, Naomi. On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal (2019) (Journalism)

Latour, Bruno. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Philosophy/Social Science)

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature (1989) (Journalism, Activism)

Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) (Humanities)

Oreskes, Naomi and Eric M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) (History/Science)

Stengers, Isabelle. In Catastrophic Times. Resisting the Coming Barbarism. Open Humanities Press, 2015.’

Thunberg, Greta. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (2018) (Activism)

Yussof, Kathryn. “Geology, Race and Matter.” A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. U of Minnesota Press, 2018. (Geography) 

Wilson, Edward O. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life (2016) (Science) 

Documentary Films

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Politics)

Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2015) (Journalism, Activism)

2040 (2019) (documentary film) 

Videos (transcripts included) 

Climate Action Lab (Activism)

Reports

IPCC 2018

Paris Agreement

Green New Deal 

Global Deal for Nature 

Web Sites

Surging Seas visualization 

The World Bank: “Turn Down the Heat” report/site