Recommended Reads

Below are some of the books, articles, essays, and poetry that have inspired my writing on this subject.

Articles & Essays

Paul Kingsnorth

**“The Axis and the Sycamore”** by Paul Kingsnorth (Orion Magazine)

**“Life versus the Machine”** by Paul Kingsnorth (Orion Magazine)

**“The Myth of Progress”** interview with Paul Kingsnorth (Emergence Magazine)

**“Why I stopped believing in environmentalism and started the Dark Mountain Project”** by Paul Kingsnorth (The Guardian)

**Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto**
*Hear it read **HERE** by Michael Dowd*

Roy Scranton

**“Climate Change and the Dharma of Failure”** by Roy Scranton (The Revealer)
*Hear it read **HERE** by MIchael Dowd*

**“Raising My Child in a Doomed World”** by Roy Scranton (New York Times)
*Hear it read **HERE** by Michael Dowd*

Derrick Jensen

**“Playing for Keeps”** by Derrick Jensen (Orion Magazine)

David Abram

**“Waking Our Animal Senses”** by David Abram

Other

**“Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change and what to do about it”** by George Marshall (The Guardian)

**“7 reasons America will fail on climate change”** by Ezra Klein (Vox)

**“Steven Pinker’s Ideas About Progress Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.”** by Jeremy Lent (Resilience)

**“How Then Shall We Live?” series** by Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil (Truthout)
*Hear it read **HERE** by Michael Dowd*

**“The Big Picture”** by Richard Heinberg

**“Al Gore Didn’t Want You to Panic”** by Dougald Hine (Bella Caledonia)

**“I Have Only One Prediction for You”** by Dougald Hine (Bella Caledonia)

**“Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy”** by Jem Bendell

**“The Secret Truth Behind Environmentalists’ Favourite Argument”** by Shaun Chamberlain (Dark Optimism)

**“I Felt Despair About Climate Change—Until a Brush With Death Changed My Mind”** by Alison Spodek Keimowitz (Slate)

**“A Guide to the End of Civilization (in 6 simple maxims)”** by Christopher Stanley (Pray With Your Feet)

**“Post-Activism & the Preposterous“** by Bayo Akomolafe

**“To Rust Metallic Gods: An Anarcho-Primitivist Critique of Paganism”** by hastenthedownfall

**“Paganism Has Failed Us and We Have Failed the World”** by Dayan Martinez

**“Solidarity Networks”** (Gods & Radicals)

**“Rewilding Witchcraft”** by Peter Grey (Scarlett Imprint)

**“Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene”** by Donna Haraway (e-flux)

**“Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck”** by Nadia C. (The Anarchist Library)

**“Speaking of Nature”** by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Orion Magazine)

Books (Non-Fiction)

**Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays** by Paul Kingsnorth

**Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization** by Roy Scranton

**We’re Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change** by Roy Scranton

**Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places** by Trebbe Johnson

**Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change** by George Marshall

**The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World** by John Michael Greer

**Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead** by John Michael Greer

**The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self** by Charles Eisenstein

**The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World** by Charles C. Mann

**Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene** by Donna Haraway

**The Denial of Death** by Ernest Becker

**This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate** by Naoimi Klein

Fiction

“The most fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives is not in their beliefs in individual freedom vs. collective good, or traditional values vs. social progress, in their intelligence or temperaments, but in their capacity for imagination. To conservatives, our society and its institutions seem the natural order of things, the logical outcome of history, and anyone who wants to change it is a malcontent or a dreamer. … SF posits that this world is contingent, provisional, not inevitable. And this is an inherently subversive proposition, because it means that the status quo is not necessarily natural or right, and could be very different, depending on chance … Science fiction is ultimately about possibility: the revolutionary possibility that things don’t have to be this way.” — Timothy Kreider, “How Science Fiction Made Me Liberal” (The Guardian)