My long reading list (below) is very long and out-of-date, so I’ve broken it up into reading lists by topic (in progress still). I encourage you to buy the books and print off the articles on acid-free paper (see Preservation of Knowledge). If you can’t afford to buy them (used), nearly all of the books or cited books and articles in the references section, are available at the University of California and other university libraries.
Alternative Energy reading list
2011 long list
Unformatted book list
| The Big Picture | |
| Charles A. Hall, Kent Klitgaard | Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy Uses science as the basis of economics – should be the Econ 101 textbook |
| Walter Youngquist | Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations & Individuals |
| Garrett Hardin | Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
| David Pimentel | Food, Energy, and Society |
| John Perlin | A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization |
| Clive Ponting | A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations |
| Peter Corning | Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind |
| Ward & Brownllee | Rare Earth Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe |
| Laurie Garrett | Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health |
| Science & Critical thinking How we know what we know | |
| Naome Oreskes | Merchants of Doubt. How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on Issues from Tobacco smoke to Global Warming |
| Bill Bryson | A Short History of Nearly Everything |
| James Lawrence Powell | The Inquisition of Climate Science |
| Simon Singh | Trick or Treatment. The undeniable facts about alternative medicine. |
| Skeptic Magazine | Critical thinking, philosophy of science, pseudoscience critiques, etc |
| Natalie Angier | The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science |
| R. Barker Bausell | Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary & Alternative Medicine |
| Ray Moynihan | Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients |
| Steve Salerno | Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless |
| Robert Davis | The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health |
| Dietrich Dorner | The Logic of Failure |
| Nicholas Capaldi | The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking. How to Win an Argument, Defend a Case, …. |
| Robert Cialdini | Influence: The Art of Persuasion |
| Carl Sagan | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark |
| Michael Shermer | Why People Believe Weird Things. Pseudoscience, superstition and other confusions |
| Michael Shermer | The Science of Good & Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, & Follow the Golden Rule |
| Extinction How we could drive ourselves and up to 95% of life on earth extinct | |
| Johan Rockström | Planetary Boundaries. Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/ |
| Peter Ward | The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? |
| Mark Lynas | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet |
| Peter Ward | Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future |
| Richard E. Leakey | The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind |
| Michael J. Mills et al | Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict. Apr 8, 2008 PNAS vol. 105#14 |
| Peter Ward | The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps |
| Peter Ward, et. al. | Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere |
| John Atcheson | Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb Dec 16, 2004 Baltimore Sun (potential for runaway greenhouse?) |
| James Lovelock | The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity |
| Christian de Duve | Genetics of Original Sin. The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity. |
| Poisoned Earth — Land, Air, and Water | |
| Theo Colborn | Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story |
| John McCormick | Acid Earth: The Global Threat of Acid Pollution |
| Jonathan Watts | When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind — Or Destroy It |
| Judith Shapiro | Mao’s War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China |
| Earth under assault: depletion of resources essential to our survival | |
| David Montgomery | Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations |
| John Opie | Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land |
| Bruce Franklin | The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America |
| Michael Harris | Lament For An Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Story |
| Richard Ellis | The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life |
| Robert Glennon | Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping & the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters |
| N. Middleton | World Atlas of Desertification |
| What is our Carrying capacity? | |
| Vaclav Smil | Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production |
| Gever, Kauffman, et al | Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades |
| D. & M. Fisher | The Nitrogen Bomb. April 2001. Discover magazine |
| William Catton | Overshoot |
| Mathis Wackernagel | Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth |
| History of Human Ecology | |
| Tim Flannery | The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People |
| Michael Williams | Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis |
| Tim Flannery | The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples |
| Our violent propensities: Can we avoid WW III as energy declines and times get harder? | |
| Steven A. LeBlanc | Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage |
| Lutz Kleveman | The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia |
| Michael Klare | Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict |
| Chalmers Johnson | The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic |
| Robert Baer | Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude |
| Ahmed Rashid | Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia |
| Peter Turchin | War and Peace and War. The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. |
| David Berreby | Us and Them. Understanding Your Tribal Mind. |
| Azar Gat | War in Human Civilization. |
| Lawrence Keeley | War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage |
| James Waller | Becoming Evil. How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing |
| Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda |
| Jack Weatherford | Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World |
| Daniel Goldhagen | Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust |
| Wrangham & Peterson | Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence |
| Michael Ghiglieri | The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence |
| Richard Rhodes | Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist |
| Giles MacDonogh | After the Reich. The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. |
| Oil, Natural Gas, & Coal: why they’re so difficult to replace, scale, uses, history, etc | |
| Kenneth Deffeyes | 1) Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak 2) Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage |
| Richard Heinberg | Blackout. Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis |
| Heinberg & D. Fridley | The End of cheap coal…reserves will run out faster than many believe. 18 Nov 2010, Vol 460, Nature 2010 pp 367-69 |
| T.Patzek & G. Croft | A global coal production forecast with multi-Hubbert cycle analysis Energy 35 (2010) 3109-3122 |
| Matthew Simmons | Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy |
| NY Acad of Sciences | Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci 1219 (2011) pp 73-98 |
| Daniel Yergin | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
| The most likely short-term “solutions” | |
| Robert L. Hirsch | Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management |
| Howard Bucknell III | Energy and the National Defense. |
| Department of Energy | Standby Gasoline Rationing Plan |
| Why Alternative Energy can’t replace fossil fuels (also see www.theoildrum.com, energybulletin.net, postcarbon.org) | |
| Ted Trainer | Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society |
| Howard Hayden | The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World |
| Martin Hoffert, et al | Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet 1 Nov 2002 Science |
| U.S.Dept of Energy | Vehicle Technologies Program. Energy Storage Research and Development. Annual Progress report 2008 |
| T.Patzek & G. Croft | Potential for Coal-to-Liquids Conversion in the United States. Natural Resources Research Vol 18#3 Sep 2009 |
| Sheila Newman (ed) | The Final Energy Crisis |
| Jacqueline Langwith, ed. | Opposing Viewpoints: Renewable Energy, vol. 2 |
| Feral Metallurgist | Other sources of energy cannot deliver sufficient surpluses to replace the potent portable energy we know as gasoline and diesel. It is not generally understood that poorer quality energy sources can be critically dependent upon oil for their extraction, processing and distribution. In other words, oil is the precursor for other sources of energy; gas, coal, nuclear, solar, hydro, because these require oil fuel to create and maintain infrastructure. It also gives them the illusion of being “profitable”. |
| Buckminster Fuller | Energy slave unit = avg output of a man doing 150,000 foot-pounds of work per day 250 days per year. In low-energy societies, nonhuman energy slaves are horses, oxen, windmills, riverboats. Now, the average American has more than 8,000 energy-slaves at his or her disposal, and these slaves can work under extreme conditions: no sleep, 5,000° F, at 400,000 pounds per square inch pressure, etc” |
| Agriculture, transportation, the major feedstock for over half a million products, heating, cooling, etc. Fossil fuels allow 6 billion extra people to exist who otherwise wouldn’t be here. | |
| R Udall, S Andrews | The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado “Pulling the Sword from the Stone” |
| Jason Makansi | Lights Out. The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means to You |
| Richard Munson | From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity |
| Joseph J. Romm | Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate |
| U.Bossel & B.Eliasson | Energy and the Hydrogen Economy |
| Alice Friedemann | The Hydrogen Economy: Energy and Economic Black Hole |
| Alice Friedemann | Peak Soil: Why Biofuels are Not Sustainable and a Threat to America’s National Security energybulletin.net |
| D. Pimentel, T. Patzek | Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower |
| E.ON Netz Corp. | E.ON Netz Wind Report 2005 |
| Wind Action | Wind power articles and realities |
| H Hirsch, et al | Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century |
| Robert Alvarez | Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage Institute for Policy Studies May 2011 |
| T. Cochran et al | It’s time to give up on breeder reactors. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. May / June 2010 |
| Michael Dittmar | The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction (4 parts) http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5631 |
| Richard Wolfson | Nuclear Choices: A Citizen’s Guide to Nuclear Technology |
| Ewen Callaway | To catch a wave 8 Nov 2007 | Nature 450, 156-159 |
| Infrastructure Our infrastructure was built when oil had EROEI of 40-100. Now it’s falling apart. | |
| Charles Hall et al. | Hydrocarbons and the Evolution of Human Culture 20 Nov 2003 Nature 426, pp. 318–22 |
| Brian Hayes | Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape |
| Kate Ascher | The Works: Anatomy of a City |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. 2009 |
| Env Protection Agency | The Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis. 2002. Office of Water |
| Rose George | The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters |
| Politics Why it’s so hard to find a way out of our situation: the Human Political Animal | |
| Joel Bakan | The Corporation The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power |
| Stanton Glantz | Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles |
| Marion Nestle | Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health |
| Jack Doyle | Taken for a Ride: Detroit’s Big Three and the Politics of Pollution |
| James C. Scott | Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. |
| Topsoil | |
| David W. Wolfe | Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean |
| R. Ratta, R. Lal | Soil Quality and Soil Erosion |
| N. Brady, R. Weil | The Nature and Properties of Soils |
| Water | |
| Jeffrey F. Mount | California Rivers & Streams. The Conflict between Fluvial Process & Land Use |
| Sandra Postel | Pillar of Sand, Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? |
| Resource Allocation | |
| David Landes | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor |
| Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
| Population | |
| Roy Beck & Leon Kolankiewicz | The Environmental Movement’s Retreat From Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970-1998). |
| Garrett Hardin | The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, |
| Virginia Abernethy | Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future |
| Bill McKibben | A Special Moment in History May 1998 Atlantic Monthly |
| All links at: | www.mnforsustain.org/table_of_contents.htm especially those by William Catton about Malthus |
| Thomas Homer-Dixon | Environment, Scarcity, and Violence |
| Climate Change a.k.a. Global Warming | |
| Spencer R. Weart | The Discovery of Global Warming |
| John D. Cox | Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future |
| Brian Fagan | The Little Ice Age: How climate made history 1300 – 1850 |
| Brian Fagan | The Long Summer. How Climate Changed Civilization |
| The National Academy | Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/ |
| Societies in Decline What happens after financial and/or energy collapses — how do people cope? What careers will be best in an outsourced, resourced-depleted world? | |
| Dmitry Orlov | Russia: Reinventing Collapse. The Soviet Example and American Prospects |
| Peter Godwin | Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun |
| oxfamamerica.org | Cuba: Going against the grain |
| Dale Allen Pfeiffer | North Korea |
| Stephen Wegren | Russia’s Food Policies and Globalization |
| Timothy Egan | The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the Dust Bowl |
| Collapse fossil fuels grow food and unlock all other resources and maintain the infrastructure we survive on. Energy shortages + death by a thousand cuts etc will cause collapse | |
| Robert Constanza, et al | Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth |
| Donella Meadows | Nothing is So Powerful As an Exponential Whose Time Has Come http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php?display_article=vn280exponentialed |
| Albert Bartlett | Arithmetic, Population, and Energy http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/symposium/bartlett/bartlett.html |
| Jared Diamond | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
| Health Care Take care of yourself, health care will decline as society grows poorer | |
| Merrill Goozner | The $800 Million Pill. The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs |
| Marion Nestle | 1) Safe Food 2) What to Eat |
| David Kessler | The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite |
| Evolutionary Psychology & Biology | |
| Matt Ridley | The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation |
| Judith Harris | No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality |
| Judith Harris | The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do |
| Geoffrey Miller | The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature |
| David Barash | Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People |
| Sarah Hrdy | Mother Nature. A history of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection |
| What it’s like to be a soldier | |
| Guy Sajer | The Forgotten Soldier |
| David Finkel | The Good Soldiers |
| Peter Goldman | Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us |
| Science | |
| Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time |
| Laurie Garrett | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance |
| BioInvasion & BioDiversity | |
| Michael Novacek, et al | The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts |
| Evolution | |
| Gregory Cochran | The 10,000 Year Explosion. How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution |
| Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species & The Descent of Man |
| Jonathan Weiner | The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time [Pulitzer Prize winner] |
| Claude Combes | The Art of Being a Parasite |
| Nina Jablonski | Skin, A Natural History |
| Carl Zimmer | Parasite Rex. Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures |
| Putting it All Together | |
| Edward O. Wilson | Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge |
| Industrial Agriculture | |
| Peter Golob | Crop Post-Harvest Handbook Volume 1: Principles and Practice |
| Eric Schlosser | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal |
| Michael Maren | The Road to Hell The ravaging effects of foreign aid and international charity |
| Steven Stoll | The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California |
| Richard Street | Beasts of the Field. A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. |
| Richard Walker | The Conquest of Bread. 150 years of Agribusiness in California. |
| Julie Guthman | Agrarian dreams. The paradox of organic farming in California |
| Kimbrell (editor) | Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture |
| Jim Hightower | Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: A report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the Failure of America’s Land Grant College Complex |
| Carolyn Johnsen | Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska |
| The Future of Farming | |
| John Jeavons | How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine |
| Jim Bender | Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming |
| B. C. Mollison | Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual |
| The Joys and Hardships of Family Farms | |
| Mildred Kalish | Little Heathens. Hard times & high spirits on an Iowa Farm during the great depression. |
| Barbara Greenwood | A Pioneer Sampler : The daily life of a pioneer family in 1840 (illustrated, good for tweens) |
| M. R. Montgomery | A Cow’s Life The Surprising History of Cattle |
| David Masumoto | Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons on my Family Farm |
| Gene Logsdon | The Contrary Farmer |
| Natural History | |
| Susan McCarthy | Becoming a Tiger: How baby animals learn to live in the wild |
| Carl Safina | Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival |
| Robert Sapolsky | A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons |
| Barry Lopez | Of Wolves and Men |
| Holldobler & Wilson | Journey to the Ants |
| Claude Combes | The Art of Being a Parasite |
| James Gould | Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence |
| Rolling Back the Clock Who knows how far back civilization will go? | |
| Steven Vogel | Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle |
| Joanna Stratton | Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier |
| Ann Greene | Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America |
| Richard White | It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own. A New History of the American West. |
| Stephen Ambrose | Undaunted Courage. Merriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
| Robert Massie | Peter the Great: His Life and World |
| Barbara Tuchman | Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century |
| Jean Gimpel | Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages |
| George Huppert | After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe |
| How Rich Nations Steal From Poor Nations | |
| Susan George | Faith and Credit: The World Bank’s Secular Empire |
| Moises Naim | Illicit. How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy (comment: the poor from the rich) |
| Fire | |
| Stephen J. Pyne | Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire |
| Stephen J. Pyne | Burning Bush, A Fire History of Australia |
| Murry Taylor | Jumping Fire. A Smoke Jumper’s memoir of fighting wildfire |
| Inventing a New Society What worked, what failed, and why? | |
| Eleanor Agnew | Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back |
| Mark Holloway | Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880 |
| Robert Hine | California‘s Utopian Colonies |
| Donald E. Pitzer | America‘s Communal Utopias |
| Helena Norberg-Hodge | Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh |
| What to do | |
| Howard T. Odum | The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies |
| Ted Trainer | The Alternative, Sustainable Society; the Simpler Way |
| Richard Heinberg | The Oil Depletion Protocol : A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse |
| Richard Heinberg | Powerdown : Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World |
| Richard Heinberg | The Party’s Over: Oil, war, and the Fate of Industrial Societies |
| James H Kunstler | The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century |
| Roscoe Bartlett | Bartlett heads the peak oil caucus in the House of representatives 3 part series, 1st part: |
| Gene Gerue | How to find your ideal country home. A comprehensive guide. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Nick Reding | Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town |
| Trashing the Planet | |
| Thomas Hayden | Trashing the Oceans |
| W.Rathje & C.Murphy | Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our garbage tells us about ourselves |
| WorldWatch Institute | State of the World 2011 |
| Higher Education in America | |
| Murray Sperber | Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education |
| Investment. You can’t buy your way out of ecological collapse, but you might live longer if you prepare, which requires money | |
| Nicole Foss | A Century of Challenges. http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ |
| Martin Weiss | The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide. How to Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times |
| William Bonner | 1) Financial Reckoning Day 2) Empire of Debt The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis |
| Stephen Leeb | The Oil Factor How oil controls the economy & your financial future |
| Van K. Tharp | Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom |
| John R. Talbot | The Coming Crash in the Housing Market |
| David / Tom Gardner | The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (or anything else that makes sense of 10K’s and annual reports) |
| Death by a thousand cuts. Converging Storms: Cheap energy has hidden how much we’ve overshot carrying capacity and provided the energy to rebuild after hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, storms, and other natural disasters. | |
| Donella Meadows | The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update |
| Edward O. Wilson | 1) The Future of Life 2) The Diversity of Life |
| Rick Weiss | Ocean species depleted by fishing: Worldwide numbers down 90 percent since the 1950s May 15, 2003 Washington.Post |
| Chris Bright | Life out of Bounds: BioInvasion in a Borderless World |
| Laurie Garrett | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance |
| Dan Fagin | Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health |
| Jennifer Viegas | 1,000 Times Too Many Humans? |
| Tim Radford | Two-thirds of world’s resources ‘used up’ |
| Hopfenberg & Pimentel | Human population numbers as a function of food supply. 2001. Environ Dev Sustain 3(1):1-15 |
| Sierra Club | First Anniversary of Superfund Bankruptcy |
| Roger Segelken | 40% of world deaths due to environment factors http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/10.15.98/env-death.html |
| Thomas Hayden | Trashing the Oceans An armada of plastic rides the waves, & sea creatures are suffering November 4 |
| G. Luft & A. Korin | Terrorism Goes to Sea Nov/Dec 2004 Foreign Affairs |
| Globalization: will continue for quite a while into navigable ports. Containerized shipping made globalization possible, it will end when these behemoths rust apart. | |
| Marc Levinson | The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger |
| Preservation of Knowledge: I hope you put some of these books on your shelves so our descendants know what really happened. Future political and religious leaders will try to profit and maintain power with their own versions of events. Hungry, crazed, non-educated people will believe it was caused by demons, sin, God, blacks, Jews, Mormons, liberals, government, etc. | |
| Alice Friedemann | Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge energybulletin.net |