Resources
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When the climate change challenge feels overwhelming, we go outdoors. Really.
Our planet is extraordinary and extraordinarily precious. There is no other place like it, and there has never been a time as agreeable to humans as now. Spending time with the physical world, whether in urban, rural, or wild environments, helps these ideas sink in. It helps us view our civilization through the lens of our climate. And it reminds us of how wondrous it is and how lucky we are to understand our Earth well enough to know how we can live in it sustainably.
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Everything on this platform was informed or inspired by the work of others. At Probable Futures, we continually seek wisdom from artists, storytellers, philosophers, and researchers alike. If you are inclined to do the same, here are some of our recommendations.
Fiction
- A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Weather by Jenny Offill
Nonfiction
- The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Feel Free by Zadie Smith
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
- How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- How Music Works by David Byrne
- A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
- The Third Plate by Dan Barber
- Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work by Robert H. Frank
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendall Berry
- Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
- The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher
Philosophy
- Being Ecological by Timothy Morton
- Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton
- Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear
Science and nature
- The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
- A World to Live In by George Woodwell
Podcasts
- This American Life: Apocalypse Creep
- 99% Invisible
- The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Data Skeptic: Opportunities for Skillful Weather Prediction Episode
- The Ezra Klein Show
Film, video, and television
- Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (Netflix)
- Chasing Coral (Netflix)
- A Skeptical Look at Climate Science (YouTube, Neil Halloran)
Artists
- Justin Brice
- Julian Charrière
- Allison Janae Hamilton
- Jenny Odell
- Katie Paterson
- Tomás Saraceno
- David Benjamin Sherry