An essay about oil history, from its discovery to its importance in today’s civilization in all domains: industrial of course but also military, political and economical.

A psychological approach to the question : why don’t we care about climate change ?

Deconstruction of the myth of geo-engineering solutions and explains how some people want to play god with the climate.

A hard-to-read book because of the conclusion it suggests : a collapse of our society probably in 2020 and certain before 2030.

This is a great book that goes through the history of all the international conferences about climate change and shows how and why things have not evolved.

Fred Vargas is mostly well-known for her crime novels however she wrote a transparent and really easy to read (even for neophytes) book about the systemic problems due to Anthropocene. The book is quite naive and its approach is sometimes confusing but it at least informs people about climate change, biodiversity destruction, energy and more.

How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

This book was originally produced in 1972 as a report commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. It was prepared with help from 152 committee members from 58 countries. As well as being something of a classic, it is fascinating to read it 50 years later, containing as it does a range of accurate predictions, warnings and suggestions – much of which have been ignored for half a century. The broad outcome is that, had the world paid attention to its contents and taken suitable action, we would not be in the mess we are in.

A book har to read in my opinion as it goes in all directions, left and right, with a confusing structure. I would better recommend Jean-Marc Jancovici’s conferences (available on Youtube for example): he is clearer orally.

The central thesis was that the supremacy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland over global affairs was transitory, given the finite nature of its primary energy resource. In propounding this thesis, Jevons covered a range of issues central to sustainability, including limits to growth, overpopulation, overshoot, energy return on energy input (EROEI), taxation of energy resources, renewable energy alternatives, and resource peaking.

History about how Global Warming was discovered.

A classic and a must-read. New editions have been published in 1992, 2004 and 2012.

A focus on the ressource part of the systemic concern in the Anthropocene in particular about metals and rare ressources used in our High Technologies.

A great psychological guide for anybody interested in enhancing its communication skills about climate change and more.

The book explores various possibilities for Earth’s future across a spectrum of predicted future temperature ranges. Wallace-Wells’ argues that even with active intervention, the effects of climate change will have catastrophic impacts across multiple spheres.

A book written by different specialists where each has its own chapter. There are two books that follow after this one.

This is a must-read in order to understand the systemic causes and consequences in the Anthropocene.

Another book on the climate change subject: it does not provide more information if you are already informed. It nonetheless offers a different point of view about it.