Environment and Climate
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On foot in Australia by Melissa Harper
Toxic: The rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry by Richard Flanagan
by James Boyce •
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
by Kirsty Howey •
Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future by Danielle Celermajer
by Alice Bishop •
The Anthropocene by Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz & Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
by Libby Robin •
The Climate Cure: Solving the climate emergency in the era of Covid-19 by Tim Flannery
by Alistair Thomson •
Fire Flood Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 edited by Sophie Cunningham
by Adele Dumont •
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, loss and hope in the face of the environmental crisis edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, and Jenny Newell
by Rayne Allinson •
If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that there has never been a better time to respond to the climate crisis than now. The global nature of Covid-19 has made it clear that global issues need a coordinated response and can easily affect the welfare of every human being on earth. The virus has shown us that it is absolutely crucial to listen to the science. Governments, in responding to epidemiological forecasts, have rapidly spent hundreds of billions of dollars on welfare subsidies, enforcing social distancing, protective equipment, mental health services, and vaccine research.
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