The Climate Change Reading Challenge - hosted by jennylachs

A book about alternative economic systems
The capitalist system has failed humanity and it's time to move to a new economic model. Thankfully, some smart people are already working on this. Let's read one of their books!
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Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future by Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettesse

Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future

Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettesse

7 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction politics science challenging hopeful informative medium-paced
Ralentir ou périr: L'économie de la décroissance by Timothée Parrique

Ralentir ou périr: L'économie de la décroissance

Timothée Parrique

300 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction economics
Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us by Jon Alexander

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

Jon Alexander

322 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Rutger Bregman

6 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

576 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

J.B. MacKinnon

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

209 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Jason Hickel

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative slow-paced
Doughnut economics by Kate Raworth

Doughnut economics

Kate Raworth

10 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics adventurous slow-paced
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