In the face of climate disaster and mass extinction, the only ‘solutions’ on offer – from our world leaders and corporations – are catastrophic geoengineering schemes, privatized conservation, and ‘net-zero targets’ that will do little to reverse the damage. These mainstream approaches assume that hyper-consumerism in the Global North can continue unabated.

These books propose radical climate solutions rooted in radical political change.

We have updated this list to include a section of writing from Mike Davis on LA as locus of ecological destruction.

Essential Reading from Mike Davis

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Climate Activism and Environmental Justice

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Economic Solutions: from De-growth to Renewables

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Socialist Climate Strategy

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How did we get here? Histories of the Climate Crisis

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Theoretical Analyses of the Climate Crisis

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Climate Change and the Far-Right

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Further reading on Earth Day:

Property does not stand above the Earth: Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse.

How To Blow Up A Pipeline, A Verso Roundtable: These articles expand the debate and introduce Malm's key ideas to new readers.

Five Book Plan from the filmmakers behind How To Blow Up A Pipeline: Director/co-writer Daniel Goldhaber, producers/co-writers Jordan Sjol and Ariela Barer, and editor Daniel Garber provide a five book plan for confronting the looming climate apocalypse.

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