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From the memoir of a Ugandan climate activist, which emphasizes the importance of climate justice, to a dystopian novel that imagines a climate-ravaged South Africa, the books on this list will show you just how bad things can get if the world does not prioritize climate conservation.
Jun 22, 2025
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The Global South is one of the regions most affected by climate change. Yet, the movement for climate conservation has often been criticized for excluding the voices of activists from this part of the world. Black and African peoples continue to fight and write against the degradation of the planet, raising awareness about the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities.
In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that will make you actually care about climate change. From the memoir of a Ugandan climate activist, which emphasizes the importance of climate justice, to a dystopian novel that imagines a climate-ravaged South Africa, the books on this list will show you just how bad things can get if the world does not prioritize climate conservation.
Read our recommendations below.
The year is 2024. In a post-apocalyptic United States, ravaged by the effects of climate change, a new religion takes root. Its proponent, Lauren Oya Olamina, is a young woman with the special ability to feel other people’s pain. Displaced from her home, she begins a journey north in search of a better life, joined along the way by various other characters similarly displaced from their homes. It is on this journey that Lauren begins to develop her new religion, which she comes to call Earthseed.
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