Lutherans Restoring Creation Blog—Books, Books, and More Books!

FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2018

7/18 Creation Cor. Col. July Books, etc.

July 2018 Books, etc. Creation Corner Column

• American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival.  Giles Slade.
• The Animal One Thousand Miles Long.  Leath Tonino.
• Animals Strike Curious Poses.  Elena Passarello.
• Bird! An Explanation of Hawk Watching.  Brian Wargo.
• BirdNote: Chirps, Quirks, and Stories of 100 Birds From the Popular Public Radio Show.  Chris Peterson.
• This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm.  Ted Genoways.
• The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination.  Richard Mabey.
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.  Marc Reisner.
• Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature.  Roland Keys.
• The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.  Ted Genoways.
• Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future.  Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright.
• Cosmic Serpant: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge.  Jeremy Narby.
• Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices.  Robert McNally.
• The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival.  Stephen Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka.
• Diet and the Disease of Civilization.  Adrienne Rose Bitar.
• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.  Paul Hawken, editor.
• Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.  Ben Goldfarb.
• Earth at Risk: Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability.  Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana.
• Earthworks: Selected Poems.  Rosanna Warren.
• Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet.  Johathan K. Crance.
• Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense.  Pierre Belanger and Alexander Arroyo.
• The Economics of Enough.  Diane Coyle.
• Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind.  Brian Fagan.
• Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire.  Pierre Belanger, editor.
• Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River.  Alice Alpinia.
• Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe.  Brian Clegg.
• The Forest Unseen.  David Haskell.
• Garden Variety: The American Tomato From Corporate to Heirloom.  John Hoenig.
• Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity.  Theodore M. Porter.
• The Green Marble: Earth System Science and Global Sustainability.  David R. Turner.
• The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health.  David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle.
• The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.  Terry Tempest Williams.
• How America Eats: A Social History of US Food and Culture.  Jennifer Jensen Wallach.
• Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North.  Horatio Clare.
• The Immeasurable World: Journeys to Desert Places.  William Atkins.
• Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic.  Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich.
• Life in the Dark:  Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth.  Dante Fenolio.
• The Lives of Animals.  J. M. Coetzee.  (A metafictional novella).
• The Long, Long Life of Trees: Fiona Stafford.
• Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms.  Michel Anctil.
• No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies.  William T. Vollman.
• The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet.  Paul Greenberg.
• Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It’s Too Late?  Mark Cocker.
• The Overstory.  Richard Powers.  (Novel).
• Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore.  Cassiano Dal Pozzo and Pietro Olina.
• Pathways To Our Sustainable Future: A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh.  Patricia M. Demarco.
• Pluriverse: A Post Development Dictionary.  Alberto Acosta et al editors.  (Forthcoming).
• The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World.  Andreas Malm.
• Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s.  Natasha Zaretsky.
• Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.  Emma Morris.
• Re-Engineering Humanity.  Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger.
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economics, and Companies.  Geoffrey West.
• The Sense of Wonder.  Rachel Carson.
• The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development.  Shanti Gamper-Rabindran.
• Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill.  Teresa Sabol Spezio.
• Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington.  John H. Spiers.
• The Songs of Trees.  David Haskell.
• The Sting of the Wild.  Justin G. Schmidt.
• Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria.  William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill.
• The Theory That Changed Everything: “On the Origin of Species” as a Work in Progress.  Philip Lieberman.
• A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis.  Seamus McGraw.
• Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey.  John P. Gluck.
• Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West.  John Fleck.
• What to Eat.  Marion Nestle.
• The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature.  Benjamin Hale.
• The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More—More or Less.  Emrys Westacott.

Global Warming books as recommended and reviewed by Allen Johnson, Staff Coordinator for “The Mountain Vision: A Free Publication of Christians for the Mountains, 12664 Frost Road, Dunmore WV 24934 in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue. Christians For The Mountains and on FaceBook.

• Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.  Katharine K. Wilkinson. 2012.
• Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment.  Mitch Hescox and Paul Douglas. 2016.
• Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living.  Nick Spencer, Robert White, and Virginia Vrobleskey.  2009.
• A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.  Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley. 2009.
• Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change.  Jim Antal. 2018.
• Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming.  James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore.  2009.
• Don’t Even Think About It:  Why Our Bodies are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.  George Marshall. 2014.
• Global Warming and the Risen Lord: Christian Discipleship and Climate Change. Jim Ball. 2010.
• The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.  Michael E. Mann.  2012.
• The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.  Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles. 2016.
• Religion and Global Climate Change:  A Handbook for Faith Leaders and Climate Activists.  Frederick W. Krueger, editor.  2015.
• Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.  James Hansen.  2009.
• Train Wreck Earth: The Climate Emergency and a Path to Solve It.  Harvard Ayers and David Harman. (written in the style of a novel).

“Disappearing Beach Reads” (from In These Times for June 2018, p. 45).

• New York 2140.  Kim Stanley Robinson (novel).
• Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.  Elizabeth Rush.
• Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security.  Todd Miller.
• The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World.  Jeff Goodell.

Other Media

• Blue Planet II. BBC America documentary from David Attenborough.
• Grizzly Man. Documentary film by Werner Herzog.  2005.
• Unfractured.  Documentary film by Chanda Chevannes about Dr. Sandra Steingraber, eco-activist.

9 Pioneering African American Outdoorspeople (cited as “pioneers” by the Sierra Club on-line):

• Charles Young
• Matthew Henson
• George W. Gibbs, Jr.
• John Francis
• Robert Taylor
• Sophia Danenberg
• Rahawa Haile
• Kai Lightner
• Shelton Johnson

A new word (to me):

“Endling”:  word for the last member of a dying species.  Alternative names for such put forward are “ender” and “terminarch”.  “Relict” usually refers to a population that is the last of a species.

Web Site of examples of censorship related to global warming:

Silencing Science Tracker

Closing Quote:

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.    –William Wilberforce.