FUTURE STUDIES READING AND FILM LIST

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

 

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY

A Government Ill-Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How To Reverse It

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change

Death by Government

 

FINANCIAL

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

 

POVERTY

Planet of Slums

 

PLAGUE

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

 

HOW THE PAST RELATES TO TODAY

A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Development Centre Studies the World Economy: Historical Statistics

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

 

CURRENT STATE OF THE WORLD

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World

State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - - And How It Can Renew America

 

FUTURE

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and The Fate of Humanity

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Vital Signs 2007-2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future