Lutherans Restoring Creation Blog
11/21 Creation Corner Column
Faith for Earth/Climate Crisis/Pandemic
Ecology and Religion
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. Prepared in advance of the UN IPCC Glasgow Scotland meeting 10/31-11/12, this 57 page book is produced by the UN Environmental Program and the Parliament of World Religions. Available on-line.
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. John Philip Newell.
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Katharine Hayhoe. (also see "The New Yorker" interview with her at "How to talk about climate change across the political divide"). Haydoe is an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian.
Climate Crisis Books
The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Brian Buma.
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis. Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros.
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. Lisa Wells.
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams.
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. Edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read.
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for our Clean Energy Future. Saul Griffith.
The Environmentalist's Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis. Arno Kopecky.
Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture. Simon Orpana.
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers and Others Who Defy Reason. Lee Mcintyre.
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Amitav Ghosh.
Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis. Alice Bell.
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet---and How We Can Fight Back. Kate Aronoff.
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Lizzie Johnson.
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. Sally Weintrobe.
They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis. James Gustave Speth.
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm.
Plagues/Pandemics/Covid-19 Books
After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future. Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter.
The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Barbara Katz Rothman.
Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again. Steven Phillips, M.D.
Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. Edited by Scott L. Greer et al.
The Enablers: How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America. Barbara Kellerman.
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat Aids in Africa. Emily Bass.
Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future. Lawrence O. Gostin.
The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782. Elizabeth A. Fenn.
House Arrest: Diary selections from the Pandemic Year March 2020 to March 2021. Alan Bennett.
How Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves. Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro.
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Jim Downs.
Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System. Rohit Khanna.
The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era. Jennifer Ashton, M.D.
New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives. Alex de Waal.
The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism. Li Zhang.
The Palliative Society; Pain Today. Byung-Chul Han.
Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Kyle Harper.
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. Elizabeth A. Fenn.
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Special Covid-19 edition). Guy Standing.
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response. Andy Slavitt.
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. Fareed Zakaira.
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic. Scott Gottlieb, M.D., former FDA Commissioner.
