Climate Collapse 101
Resources to start learning about climate change
If you or a friend recently became interested in climate change and what it means for human civilization, below is a list of resources to get started.
I've broken it down into two sections. The first includes resources to quickly get up to speed within a few hours. The second provides a list of resources to support ongoing education.
The views and forecasts in these videos and articles vary. Some are overly optimistic about what can be achieved. In my view, collapse is a mathematical and behavioral certainty. The question is "when and how?".
Section 1: Climate Collapse 101
1) Start Here: Broad Introduction
2) Stay Tuned In: Subscribe to a Few Podcasts
3) Go Deeper: Watch These Presentations and Interviews
4) Essential Readings
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Section 2: Extra Credit
If you'd like to continue your learning journey, there is a ton of additional sources of information and insights in all formats.
Academic (but accessible) Papers
Global warming in the pipeline
Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point?
Documentaries
Sarah Connor
Websites - Many with Raw Data
Copernicus Climate Change Service
Courses
(Free) Open University: Climate
Audio Books
Books (in random order)
(Free) Downfall: Lessons for Our Final Century
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Help is NOT on the Way
The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature
A World Without End (Graphic Novel)
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Disposable Earth: How and Why We Gave Our Planet an Expiration Date
Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
The Discovery of Global Warming
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Another Way: Thoughts on the Coming Collapse