biodiversity loss

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

by Suzanne Simard;  · 30 Mar 2026  · 430pp  · 111,698 words

recover. Only a few days earlier, at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Canada had joined 136 other nations in a pledge to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, deforestation, and land degradation by 2030. The Mother Tree Project data suggested our country was already breaking its promise with respect to land degradation. Jean

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America 115: 3663–68. Law, B. E., Moomaw, W. R., Hudiburg, T. W., et al. (2022). Creating strategic reserves to protect forest carbon and reduce biodiversity losses in the United States. Land 11(5): 721. McKibben, B. (2022). In a world on fire, stop burning things. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker

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Ecology and Evolution 30(11): 673–84. Oliver, T. H., Isaac, N. J., August, T. A., et al. (2015). Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss. Nature Communications 6(1): 10122. Orrego, G. (2018). Western hemlock regeneration on coarse woody debris is facilitated by linkage into a mycorrhizal network in an

We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 13 Apr 2026  · 225pp  · 76,418 words

Kamen is bringing organ regeneration to the masses. Yes, Ben Lamm and George Church are de-extincting woolly mammoths to fight climate change and combat biodiversity loss. But these aren’t isolated incidents. They’re exemplars of larger trends. Ogunbiyi’s solar revolution, for example, is one thread in a much broader

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Drug Abuse and Overdoses Mental Health Crisis and Information Overwhelm Microplastics and Forever Chemicals Human Population Flux The Growing Rich-Poor Divide and Political Polarization Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Collapse The Threat of Future Pandemics and Bioterrorism Dangers of AI If your favorite disaster du jour is not on this list, please

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first wave of this shift. Each of them presents solutions to the problem of population decline, which also makes them solutions to the problem of biodiversity loss. A 2023 Goldman Sachs report suggests that humanoid robots could fill up to 126 percent of the expected labor shortage in aging nations. In Japan

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high accuracy and usable lead time. Restore Earth’s Ecosystems: Use robotics and AI to rewild 50 percent of degraded land and oceans and reverse biodiversity loss. Deploy atmospheric CO2 capture at scale to return carbon levels to preindustrial norms. Clean Energy Abundance via Fusion: Design/manufacture easy-to-build five hundred

The Insatiable Machine

by Trevor Jackson  · 15 Mar 2026  · 270pp  · 104,133 words

could produce vastly more output than anything ever had before.22 That output raised human living standards, but at the cost of carbon emissions, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and the construction of an energy regime that has proved both destructive and difficult to transcend. The burning of fossil fuels was an addition to

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words

achieved on the Knepp estate. Governments from 72 countries signed a Leaders’ Pledge for Nature in September 2020, promising to address environmental destruction, and ‘reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030.38 Pledges are very welcome – we like pledges. But our money will help governments keep their word. $ $ $ HUMANS ARE A MAJOR FORCE for

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.com/environ-ment/2020/apr/26/uk-first-wild-stork-chicks-hatch-centuries 37 Eric Dinerstein et al. (2020) ‘A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate’. Science Advances 6(36). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb2824 38 See www.leaderspledgefornature.org 39 Mark Bush (2019) ‘A neotropical

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman  · 21 Mar 2017  · 441pp  · 113,244 words

,” Washington Post, November 3, 2006, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html. See also Boris Worm et al., “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services,” Science 314, no. 5800 (November 3, 2006): 787–90, www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787.abstract. “peak phosphorus,“or the

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

“rough, first estimates only, surrounded by large uncertainties and knowledge gaps” that will require major scientific advancements to fill. The nine boundaries were climate change, biodiversity loss, disruption of global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, freshwater use, changes in land use, chemical pollution, and atmospheric particulates. Behind each of

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. Only one plentiful source remains, in Morocco and neighboring Western Sahara, a barely functioning state whose future stability has agronomists everywhere concerned.) The third was biodiversity loss. Before the Industrial Revolution, the fossil record suggests, 0.1 to 1 species per million went extinct annually. The acceptable limit they proposed was 10

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, April 13, 2011. Hooper, David U., E. Carol Adair, Bradley J. Cardinale, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Bruce A. Hungate, et al. “A Global Synthesis Reveals Biodiversity Loss as a Major Driver of Ecosystem Change.” Nature, vol. 486 (June 2012): 105–8. Horton, Tom. “Concerns over U.S. Population Growth Date Back to

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to Create Largest Mega City in the World with 42 Million People.” Telegraph (UK), January 24, 2011. Mora, Camilo, and Peter F. Sale. “Ongoing Global Biodiversity Loss and the Need to Move Beyond Protected Areas: A Review of the Technical and Practical Shortcomings of Protected Areas on Land and Sea.” Marine Ecology

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

by Simran Sethi  · 10 Nov 2015  · 396pp  · 112,832 words

tough to study bees on a global scale. A 2015 study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature offers a sobering snapshot of this biodiversity loss: Nearly 10 percent of Europe’s almost 2,000 wild bee species are at risk of extinction, while an additional 5 percent will likely be

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April 27, 2015, http://www.whoi.edu/main/topic/phytoplankton. 12.“Facts and Figures on Marine Biodiversity,” UNESCO. 13.Boris Worm et al., “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services,” Science 314 (November 2006): 790, doi:10.1126/science.1132294. 14.Robert Krulwich, “The Hardest-Working Mom on the Planet,” Krulwich

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

various dimensions that have been set out so far. It starts with sustainable economic growth, not the GDP fetish which beguiles us. Climate change and biodiversity loss are so systemic that they demand an overarching economic system to address them. Critics of the current model of capitalism are right to point out

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, 86, 87–8, 95, 100, 102, 109, 116, 146–7, 149, 159, 163–80, 181, 183, 192, 197, 198, 206, 220 baseline, the 164–8 biodiversity loss and 2, 5, 100, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174, 180 biofuels and 197–8 carbon emissions and 2, 12, 13, 35–6, 76

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change 2/ the government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero by 2025 3/ The government must create and be led by the decisions of a Citizens’ Assembly

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responsible for more than half of all greenhouse-gas emissions. One based on an industrialized farming system that destroys forests, decarbonizes and depletes soil, drives biodiversity loss and yet, globally, receives hundreds of billions in taxpayer subsidies. Above all, an economy sustained by a finance sector that fuels endless consumption with seemingly

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

by Mike Berners-Lee  · 27 Feb 2019

. E., Gonzalez, A., Hooper, D. U., Perrings, C., Venail, P., Narwani, A., Mace, G. M., Tilman, D., Wardle, D. A. and Kinzig, A .P. (2012) Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486(7401), p. 59. This Nature paper draws on hundreds of other pieces of research. “For provisioning services, data

Not the End of the World

by Hannah Ritchie  · 9 Jan 2024  · 335pp  · 101,992 words

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

by Ian Hanington  · 13 May 2012  · 258pp  · 77,601 words

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

by Stefan Al  · 11 Apr 2022  · 300pp  · 81,293 words

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature

by Beth Shapiro  · 15 Dec 2021  · 338pp  · 105,112 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs  · 1 Jan 2008  · 421pp  · 125,417 words

The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It

by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan  · 15 Mar 2014  · 414pp  · 101,285 words

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

by Tim Flannery  · 10 Jan 2001  · 427pp  · 111,965 words

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg  · 14 Feb 2023  · 651pp  · 162,060 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert  · 11 Feb 2014  · 308pp  · 94,447 words

Climate Change

by Joseph Romm  · 3 Dec 2015  · 358pp  · 93,969 words

Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

by Alan Weisman  · 21 Apr 2025  · 599pp  · 149,014 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

by Mark Lynas  · 1 Apr 2008  · 364pp  · 101,193 words

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

by Vaclav Smil  · 2 Mar 2021  · 1,324pp  · 159,290 words

GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why It Must Now Change

by Ehsan Masood  · 4 Mar 2021  · 303pp  · 74,206 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje  · 14 Aug 2020  · 375pp  · 105,586 words

Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection

by Kevin Morrison  · 15 Jul 2008  · 311pp  · 17,232 words

Collapse

by Jared Diamond  · 25 Apr 2011  · 753pp  · 233,306 words

The Ages of Globalization

by Jeffrey D. Sachs  · 2 Jun 2020

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside

by Dieter Helm  · 7 Mar 2019  · 348pp  · 102,438 words

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord  · 24 Mar 2020  · 513pp  · 152,381 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond  · 2 Jan 2008  · 801pp  · 242,104 words

Among Chimpanzees

by Nancy J. Merrick  · 321pp  · 96,349 words

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac  · 25 Feb 2020  · 197pp  · 49,296 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

by Fred Pearce  · 30 Sep 2009  · 407pp  · 121,458 words

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

by Paul Gilding  · 28 Mar 2011  · 337pp  · 103,273 words

The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

by Peter Singer and Jim Mason  · 1 May 2006  · 400pp  · 129,320 words

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg  · 1 Jun 2011  · 372pp  · 107,587 words

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

by Martin J. Rees  · 14 Oct 2018  · 193pp  · 51,445 words

Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

by James Suzman  · 2 Sep 2020  · 909pp  · 130,170 words

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

by Tim Jackson  · 8 Dec 2016  · 573pp  · 115,489 words

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

by Ingrid Robeyns  · 16 Jan 2024  · 327pp  · 110,234 words

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Steven Radelet  · 10 Nov 2015  · 437pp  · 115,594 words

Innovation and Its Enemies

by Calestous Juma  · 20 Mar 2017

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto  · 10 Oct 2011  · 692pp  · 127,032 words

Lonely Planet Scotland

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Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home

by Julia Watkins  · 6 Apr 2020

The Soil Will Save Us

by Kristin Ohlson  · 14 Oct 2014

Lonely Planet Scotland

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The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

by Ruth Defries  · 8 Sep 2014  · 342pp  · 88,736 words

Scotland Travel Guide

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Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

by Vincent Ialenti  · 22 Sep 2020  · 224pp  · 69,593 words

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider  · 15 Dec 2024  · 346pp  · 84,111 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson  · 28 Mar 2011  · 412pp  · 113,782 words

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

by Andrew Sayer  · 6 Nov 2014  · 504pp  · 143,303 words

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop

by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger  · 1 Jan 1999  · 230pp  · 62,294 words

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

by Vaclav Smil  · 4 May 2021  · 252pp  · 60,959 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

by Ronald Cohen  · 1 Jul 2020  · 276pp  · 59,165 words

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide

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The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett  · 14 May 2017  · 550pp  · 89,316 words

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment

by Lucas Chancel  · 15 Jan 2020  · 191pp  · 51,242 words

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

by Richard Horton  · 31 May 2020  · 106pp  · 33,210 words

The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff  · 10 Mar 2015  · 128pp  · 38,187 words

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus  · 25 Sep 2017  · 278pp  · 74,880 words

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

by Howard P. Segal  · 20 May 2012  · 299pp  · 19,560 words

Berlin

by Andrea Schulte-Peevers  · 20 Oct 2010  · 638pp  · 156,653 words

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar  · 14 Oct 2024  · 175pp  · 46,192 words

Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures

by Nessa Carey  · 7 Mar 2019  · 182pp  · 45,873 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

by Ronald Purser  · 8 Jul 2019  · 242pp  · 67,233 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

by Elizabeth L. Cline  · 13 Jun 2012  · 256pp  · 76,433 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale  · 23 May 2011  · 397pp  · 112,034 words

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

by Alanna Collen  · 4 May 2015  · 372pp  · 111,573 words

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski  · 5 Mar 2019  · 202pp  · 62,901 words

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 words

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben  · 15 Apr 2019

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 27 Nov 2012  · 651pp  · 180,162 words