American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival. Giles Slade.
The Animal One Thousand Miles Long. Leath Tonino.
Animals Strike Curious Poses. Elena Passarello.
Bird! An Explanation of Hawk Watching. Brian Wargo.
BirdNote: Chirps, Quirks, and Stories of 100 Birds From the Popular Public Radio Show. Chris Peterson.
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm. Ted Genoways.
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination. Richard Mabey.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Marc Reisner.
Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature. Roland Keys.
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. Ted Genoways.
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright.
Cosmic Serpant: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. Jeremy Narby.
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices. Robert McNally.
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival. Stephen Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka.
Diet and the Disease of Civilization. Adrienne Rose Bitar.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Paul Hawken, editor.
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Ben Goldfarb.
Earth at Risk: Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability. Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana.
Earthworks: Selected Poems. Rosanna Warren.
Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet. Johathan K. Crance.
Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense. Pierre Belanger and Alexander Arroyo.
The Economics of Enough. Diane Coyle.
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind. Brian Fagan.
Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire. Pierre Belanger, editor.
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River. Alice Alpinia.
Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe. Brian Clegg.
The Forest Unseen. David Haskell.
Garden Variety: The American Tomato From Corporate to Heirloom. John Hoenig.
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity. Theodore M. Porter.
The Green Marble: Earth System Science and Global Sustainability. David R. Turner.
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health. David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle.
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. Terry Tempest Williams.
How America Eats: A Social History of US Food and Culture. Jennifer Jensen Wallach.
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North. Horatio Clare.
The Immeasurable World: Journeys to Desert Places. William Atkins.
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic. Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich.
Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth. Dante Fenolio.
The Lives of Animals. J. M. Coetzee. (A metafictional novella).
The Long, Long Life of Trees: Fiona Stafford.
Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms. Michel Anctil.
No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies. William T. Vollman.
The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet. Paul Greenberg.
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It's Too Late? Mark Cocker.
The Overstory. Richard Powers. (Novel).
Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore. Cassiano Dal Pozzo and Pietro Olina.
Pathways To Our Sustainable Future: A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh. Patricia M. Demarco.
Pluriverse: A Post Development Dictionary. Alberto Acosta et al editors. (Forthcoming).
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. Andreas Malm.
Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s. Natasha Zaretsky.
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. Emma Morris.
Re-Engineering Humanity. Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economics, and Companies. Geoffrey West.
The Sense of Wonder. Rachel Carson.
The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development. Shanti Gamper-Rabindran.
Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill. Teresa Sabol
Spezio.
Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington. John H. Spiers.
The Songs of Trees. David Haskell.
The Sting of the Wild. Justin G. Schmidt.
Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria. William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O'Neill.
The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress. Philip Lieberman.
A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis. Seamus McGraw.
Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey. John P. Gluck.
Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West. John Fleck.
What to Eat. Marion Nestle.
The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature. Benjamin Hale.
The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More---More or Less. Emrys Westacott.
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Global Warming books as recommended and reviewed by Allen Johnson, Staff Coordinator for "The Mountain Vision: A Free Publication of Christians for the Mountains, 12664 Frost Road, Dunmore WV 24934 in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue. Christians For The Mountains and on FaceBook.
Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change. Katharine K. Wilkinson. 2012.
Caring for Creation: The Evangelical's Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment. Mitch Hescox and Paul Douglas. 2016.
Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living. Nick Spencer, Robert White, and Virginia Vrobleskey. 2009.
A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley. 2009.
Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change. Jim Antal. 2018.
Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore. 2009.
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Bodies are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. George Marshall. 2014.
Global Warming and the Risen Lord: Christian Discipleship and Climate Change. Jim Ball. 2010.
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. Michael E. Mann. 2012.
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles. 2016.
Religion and Global Climate Change: A Handbook for Faith Leaders and Climate Activists. Frederick W. Krueger, editor. 2015.
Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. James Hansen. 2009.
Train Wreck Earth: The Climate Emergency and a Path to Solve It. Harvard Ayers and David Harman. (written in the style of a novel).
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"Disappearing Beach Reads" (from In These Times for June 2018, p. 45).
New York 2140. Kim Stanley Robinson (novel).
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Elizabeth Rush.
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security. Todd Miller.
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World. Jeff Goodell.
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Other Media
Blue Planet II. BBC America documentary from David Attenborough.
Grizzly Man. Documentary film by Werner Herzog. 2005.
Unfractured. Documentary film by Chanda Chevannes about Dr. Sandra Steingraber, eco-activist.
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9 Pioneering African American Outdoorspeople (cited as "pioneers" by the Sierra Club on-line):
Charles Young
Matthew Henson
George W. Gibbs, Jr.
John Francis
Robert Taylor
Sophia Danenberg
Rahawa Haile
Kai Lightner
Shelton Johnson
A new word (to me):
"Endling": word for the last member of a dying species. Alternative names for such put forward are "ender" and "terminarch". "Relict" usually refers to a population that is the last of a species.
Web Site of examples of censorship related to global warming:
Silencing Science Tracker
Closing Quote:
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
William Wilberforce.
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Mike Ochs blogs at http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com .
He earned a B.A. from Gettysburg College (1965), and a Master's from Lock Haven University (1989), where he studied the international Green Party movement.
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