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🛢️ Fossil Fuel Dependency

Books examining the structural and psychological grip that carbon-based energy holds on economies and societies, and the steep challenge of breaking free.
The End of Oil
by Paul Roberts • 2004
Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.
3.74
1k+
🔄 Energy Transition🛢️ Oil Geopolitics⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence
The End of Oil Summary
The End of Oil 92%
Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.
by Paul Roberts 2004
3.74
1k+ ratings
🔄 Energy Transition🛢️ Oil Geopolitics⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence
Confronting Collapse
by Michael C. Ruppert • 2009
Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.
3.83
313
⛽ Peak Oil🪨 Resource Depletion💹 Energy Economics
Confronting Collapse Summary
Confronting Collapse 90%
Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.
by Michael C. Ruppert 2009
3.83
313 ratings
⛽ Peak Oil🪨 Resource Depletion💹 Energy Economics
The Rare Metals War
by Guillame Pitron • 2018
Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.
4.04
1k+
⚡ Energy Transition⛏️ Resource Extraction🔗 Supply Chains
The Rare Metals War Summary
The Rare Metals War 90%
Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.
by Guillame Pitron 2018
4.04
1k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Transition⛏️ Resource Extraction🔗 Supply Chains
Falter
by Bill McKibben • 2019
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
4.00
2k+
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception
Falter Summary
Falter 90%
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
by Bill McKibben 2019
4.00
2k+ ratings
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception
BOOM
by Tony Horwitz • 2014
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
3.89
713
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
BOOM Summary
BOOM 90%
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
by Tony Horwitz 2014
3.89
713 ratings
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
Private Empire
by Steve Coll • 2012
How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.
4.00
4k+
🛢️ Oil Industry🏢 Corporate History🔍 Investigative Journalism
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire 90%
How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.
by Steve Coll 2012
4.00
4k+ ratings
🛢️ Oil Industry🏢 Corporate History🔍 Investigative Journalism
Schockwellen
by Claudia Kemfert • 2023
Why Germany's energy transition stalled by design, and the community projects that got it right.
4.07
75
⚡ Energy Transition🌍 Energy Geopolitics🔒 Energy Security
Schockwellen Summary
Schockwellen 90%
Why Germany's energy transition stalled by design, and the community projects that got it right.
by Claudia Kemfert 2023
4.07
75 ratings
⚡ Energy Transition🌍 Energy Geopolitics🔒 Energy Security
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow • 2019
Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.
4.34
16k+
🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry🌏 Energy Geopolitics💎 Resource Curse
Blowout Summary
Blowout 90%
Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.
by Rachel Maddow 2019
4.34
16k+ ratings
🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry🌏 Energy Geopolitics💎 Resource Curse
This Changes Everything
by Naomi Klein • 2014
Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.
4.16
28k+
🏛️ Climate Politics🌹 Eco-Socialism⚖️ Climate Justice
This Changes Everything Summary
This Changes Everything 90%
Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.
by Naomi Klein 2014
4.16
28k+ ratings
🏛️ Climate Politics🌹 Eco-Socialism⚖️ Climate Justice
Trespassing Across America
by Ken Ilgunas • 2016
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
3.82
2k+
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America 90%
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
by Ken Ilgunas 2016
3.82
2k+ ratings
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein • 2014
Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.
4.07
2k+
⚡ Energy Policy🌡️ Climate Debate🔧 Techno-Optimism
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Summary
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels 90%
Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.
by Alex Epstein 2014
4.07
2k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Policy🌡️ Climate Debate🔧 Techno-Optimism
The Great Transition
by Lester R. Brown • 2014
Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.
3.66
201
⚡ Energy Transition☀️ Renewable Energy📉 Energy Economics
The Great Transition Summary
The Great Transition 89%
Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.
by Lester R. Brown 2014
3.66
201 ratings
⚡ Energy Transition☀️ Renewable Energy📉 Energy Economics
The Prize
by Daniel Yergin • 1991
How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.
4.44
13k+
🛢️ Commodity History⛽ Petroleum Industry🌍 Energy Geopolitics
The Prize Summary
The Prize 89%
How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.
by Daniel Yergin 1991
4.44
13k+ ratings
🛢️ Commodity History⛽ Petroleum Industry🌍 Energy Geopolitics
Energy and Civilization
by Vaclav Smil • 2017
A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.
4.09
4k+
⚡ Energy History⚙️ History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
Energy and Civilization Summary
Energy and Civilization 89%
A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.
by Vaclav Smil 2017
4.09
4k+ ratings
⚡ Energy History⚙️ History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in
by John Kay • 2009
Clean energy outcompetes fossil fuels on price. The smart money is shifting; the rest will follow.
3.95
615
🏭 Decarbonization☀️ Clean Energy💰 Impact Investing
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in Summary
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in 89%
Clean energy outcompetes fossil fuels on price. The smart money is shifting; the rest will follow.
by John Kay 2009
3.95
615 ratings
🏭 Decarbonization☀️ Clean Energy💰 Impact Investing
2052
by Jørgen Randers • 2012
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
3.95
355
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning
2052 Summary
2052 89%
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
by Jørgen Randers 2012
3.95
355 ratings
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning
The Green New Deal
by Jeremy Rifkin • 2019
The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.
3.68
812
💚 Green New Deal⚡ Energy Transition💰 Green Economics
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal 89%
The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019
3.68
812 ratings
💚 Green New Deal⚡ Energy Transition💰 Green Economics
The Limits to Growth
by Donella H. Meadows • 1972
Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.
4.17
931
🌿 Environmental Economics⛏️ Resource Depletion🔄 Systems Thinking
The Limits to Growth Summary
The Limits to Growth 89%
Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.
by Donella H. Meadows 1972
4.17
931 ratings
🌿 Environmental Economics⛏️ Resource Depletion🔄 Systems Thinking
Brazil Is the New America
by James Dale Davidson • 2012
The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.
3.17
36
📉 National Decline🌍 Emerging Markets🛢️ Peak Oil
Brazil Is the New America Summary
Brazil Is the New America 89%
The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.
by James Dale Davidson 2012
3.17
36 ratings
📉 National Decline🌍 Emerging Markets🛢️ Peak Oil
Apocalypse Never
by Michael Shellenberger • 2020
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
4.16
6k+
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never 89%
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
by Michael Shellenberger 2020
4.16
6k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
Oil and Honey
by Bill McKibben • 2013
While he fought pipelines, his beekeeper friend built a different answer to a warming world.
3.90
1k+
🌍 Climate Activism📝 Environmental Memoir✊ Grassroots Organizing
Oil and Honey Summary
Oil and Honey 89%
While he fought pipelines, his beekeeper friend built a different answer to a warming world.
by Bill McKibben 2013
3.90
1k+ ratings
🌍 Climate Activism📝 Environmental Memoir✊ Grassroots Organizing
Here Comes the Sun
by Bill McKibben • 2025
The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.
4.50
939
☀️ Renewable Energy⚡ Electrification✊ Climate Activism
Here Comes the Sun Summary
Here Comes the Sun 89%
The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.
by Bill McKibben 2025
4.50
939 ratings
☀️ Renewable Energy⚡ Electrification✊ Climate Activism
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
by Wes Jackson • 2022
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
3.56
198
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse 88%
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
by Wes Jackson 2022
3.56
198 ratings
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J.C. MacKay • 2008
Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.
4.41
2k+
🏛️ Energy Policy⚡ Energy Systems🌬️ Renewable Energy
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Summary
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air 88%
Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.
by David J.C. MacKay 2008
4.41
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Energy Policy⚡ Energy Systems🌬️ Renewable Energy
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
by Dipesh Chakrabarty • 2021
All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.
3.68
142
🏞️ Anthropocene Theory⏳ Deep Time⚖️ Climate Justice
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Summary
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age 88%
All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.
by Dipesh Chakrabarty 2021
3.68
142 ratings
🏞️ Anthropocene Theory⏳ Deep Time⚖️ Climate Justice
Going Nuclear
by Tim Gregory • 2025
Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.
4.47
309
🏭 Nuclear Energy🏛️ Energy Policy🌍 Climate Solutions
Going Nuclear Summary
Going Nuclear 88%
Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.
by Tim Gregory 2025
4.47
309 ratings
🏭 Nuclear Energy🏛️ Energy Policy🌍 Climate Solutions
Taming the Sun
by Varun Sivaram • 2018
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
4.07
501
☀️ Solar Energy🔄 Clean Energy Transition🏛️ Energy Policy
Taming the Sun Summary
Taming the Sun 88%
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
by Varun Sivaram 2018
4.07
501 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy🔄 Clean Energy Transition🏛️ Energy Policy
A Planet to Win
by Kate Aronoff • 2019
What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?
4.07
686
📗 Green New Deal🌍 Climate Justice🌱 Ecosocialism
A Planet to Win Summary
A Planet to Win 88%
What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?
by Kate Aronoff 2019
4.07
686 ratings
📗 Green New Deal🌍 Climate Justice🌱 Ecosocialism
The Story of Stuff
by Annie Leonard • 2010
A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.
4.08
4k+
📉 Consumerism Critique🔄 Product Life Cycles⚖️ Environmental Justice
The Story of Stuff Summary
The Story of Stuff 88%
A five-stage global machine grinds resources into toxic waste. The owners call it the economy.
by Annie Leonard 2010
4.08
4k+ ratings
📉 Consumerism Critique🔄 Product Life Cycles⚖️ Environmental Justice
How Everything Can Collapse
by Pablo Servigne • 2015
Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.
4.16
1k+
📉 Collapsology🏚️ Civilizational Collapse🔗 Systems Thinking
How Everything Can Collapse Summary
How Everything Can Collapse 88%
Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.
by Pablo Servigne 2015
4.16
1k+ ratings
📉 Collapsology🏚️ Civilizational Collapse🔗 Systems Thinking
Cheaponomics
by Michael S. Carolan • 2014
Every low price hides a bill you are already paying, just not at the register.
3.65
20
💸 Externalized Costs🛒 Consumer Capitalism🏢 Corporate Power
Cheaponomics Summary
Cheaponomics 88%
Every low price hides a bill you are already paying, just not at the register.
by Michael S. Carolan 2014
3.65
20 ratings
💸 Externalized Costs🛒 Consumer Capitalism🏢 Corporate Power
Our Choice
by Al Gore • 2008
The tools to solve the climate crisis exist; here's the plan to deploy them at scale.
3.99
864
🌍 Climate Crisis☀️ Renewable Energy💡 Energy Efficiency
Our Choice Summary
Our Choice 88%
The tools to solve the climate crisis exist; here's the plan to deploy them at scale.
by Al Gore 2008
3.99
864 ratings
🌍 Climate Crisis☀️ Renewable Energy💡 Energy Efficiency
City of Gold
by Jim Krane • 2009
Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.
3.97
776
🏛️ State Capitalism⛽ Resource Curse👑 Gulf Monarchies
City of Gold Summary
City of Gold 88%
Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.
by Jim Krane 2009
3.97
776 ratings
🏛️ State Capitalism⛽ Resource Curse👑 Gulf Monarchies
Bad Ideas?
by Robert Winston • 2009
Writing, farming, and nuclear power share an uncomfortable secret: each was supposed to save us.
3.56
142
⚙️ History Of Technology🔄 Unintended Consequences📈 Progress Studies
Bad Ideas? Summary
Bad Ideas? 88%
Writing, farming, and nuclear power share an uncomfortable secret: each was supposed to save us.
by Robert Winston 2009
3.56
142 ratings
⚙️ History Of Technology🔄 Unintended Consequences📈 Progress Studies
Climate Change
by Joseph Romm • 2015
Climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. The most expensive thing we can do is nothing.
4.22
694
🧪 Climate Science📋 Climate Policy⚡ Energy Transition
Climate Change Summary
Climate Change 88%
Climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. The most expensive thing we can do is nothing.
by Joseph Romm 2015
4.22
694 ratings
🧪 Climate Science📋 Climate Policy⚡ Energy Transition
Material World
by Ed Conway • 2023
Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.
4.5
9k+
📜 Material Histories🚢 Supply Chains🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure
Material World Summary
Material World 88%
Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.
by Ed Conway 2023
4.5
9k+ ratings
📜 Material Histories🚢 Supply Chains🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure
Revolutionary Power
by Shalanda Baker • 2021
Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.
4.17
190
🏛️ Energy Policy🏭 Environmental Racism🔋 Clean Energy Transition
Revolutionary Power Summary
Revolutionary Power 88%
Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.
by Shalanda Baker 2021
4.17
190 ratings
🏛️ Energy Policy🏭 Environmental Racism🔋 Clean Energy Transition
How the World Really Works
by Vaclav Smil • 2022
Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.
3.94
14k+
⚡ Energy Systems🏭 Industrial Ecology🌾 Global Food Systems
How the World Really Works Summary
How the World Really Works 88%
Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.
by Vaclav Smil 2022
3.94
14k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Systems🏭 Industrial Ecology🌾 Global Food Systems
False Alarm
by Bjørn Lomborg • 2020
Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.
4.16
3k+
🏛️ Climate Policy📊 Environmental Economics⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis
False Alarm Summary
False Alarm 88%
Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.
by Bjørn Lomborg 2020
4.16
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Climate Policy📊 Environmental Economics⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates • 2021
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
4.11
51k+
🌍 Net Zero Transition⚡ Clean Energy Transition🚀 Techno-Optimism
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Summary
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster 88%
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
by Bill Gates 2021
4.11
51k+ ratings
🌍 Net Zero Transition⚡ Clean Energy Transition🚀 Techno-Optimism
Our Angry Earth
by Isaac Asimov • 1991
Asimov connected climate change, ozone loss, toxic waste, and soil erosion: four alarms, one fire.
3.71
126
🌍 Environmental Crises🌡️ Climate Science🏭 Pollution
Our Angry Earth Summary
Our Angry Earth 88%
Asimov connected climate change, ozone loss, toxic waste, and soil erosion: four alarms, one fire.
by Isaac Asimov 1991
3.71
126 ratings
🌍 Environmental Crises🌡️ Climate Science🏭 Pollution
Net Zero
by Dieter Helm • 2020
Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.
3.84
270
🏷️ Carbon Pricing📈 Market-Based Environmentalism📦 Consumption Emissions
Net Zero Summary
Net Zero 88%
Why UN climate talks can't cut emissions, and how taxing carbon consumption can.
by Dieter Helm 2020
3.84
270 ratings
🏷️ Carbon Pricing📈 Market-Based Environmentalism📦 Consumption Emissions
The New Map
by Daniel Yergin • 2020
Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.
4.17
6k+
🛢️ Energy Geopolitics🏛️ Great Power Rivalry🌍 Climate Geopolitics
The New Map Summary
The New Map 88%
Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.
by Daniel Yergin 2020
4.17
6k+ ratings
🛢️ Energy Geopolitics🏛️ Great Power Rivalry🌍 Climate Geopolitics
Numbers Don't Lie
by Vaclav Smil • 2020
Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.
3.82
11k+
🔋 Energy Transitions👴 Demographic Shifts🌽 Food Systems
Numbers Don't Lie Summary
Numbers Don't Lie 88%
Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.
by Vaclav Smil 2020
3.82
11k+ ratings
🔋 Energy Transitions👴 Demographic Shifts🌽 Food Systems
The Arrogance of Humanism
by David W. Ehrenfeld • 1978
Modernity's religion of reason promises total control. Its actual deliverable is cascading failure.
3.97
91
🧠 Environmental Philosophy🔧 Technocritique💰 Ecological Economics
The Arrogance of Humanism Summary
The Arrogance of Humanism 88%
Modernity's religion of reason promises total control. Its actual deliverable is cascading failure.
by David W. Ehrenfeld 1978
3.97
91 ratings
🧠 Environmental Philosophy🔧 Technocritique💰 Ecological Economics
Plastic Purge
by Michael SanClements • 2014
A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.
3.86
436
🚮 Plastic Pollution🩺 Environmental Health♻️ Waste Reduction
Plastic Purge Summary
Plastic Purge 88%
A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.
by Michael SanClements 2014
3.86
436 ratings
🚮 Plastic Pollution🩺 Environmental Health♻️ Waste Reduction
The Green Collar Economy
by Van Jones • 2008
Climate change and inequality are twin crises, and they share a solution.
3.70
868
🌿 Green Politics✊ Environmental Justice🔄 Sustainable Economy
The Green Collar Economy Summary
The Green Collar Economy 88%
Climate change and inequality are twin crises, and they share a solution.
by Van Jones 2008
3.70
868 ratings
🌿 Green Politics✊ Environmental Justice🔄 Sustainable Economy
The Grid
by Gretchen Bakke • 2016
The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.
3.86
5k+
🏗️ Infrastructure⚡ Energy Transition🌬️ Renewable Integration
The Grid Summary
The Grid 88%
The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.
by Gretchen Bakke 2016
3.86
5k+ ratings
🏗️ Infrastructure⚡ Energy Transition🌬️ Renewable Integration
Limits to Growth
by Donella H. Meadows • 1972
A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.
4.21
2k+
🧠 Systems Thinking📊 Environmental Economics🌍 Planetary Boundaries
Limits to Growth Summary
Limits to Growth 88%
A computer model of Earth's limits, tested for 30 years: the math says overshoot has already begun.
by Donella H. Meadows 1972
4.21
2k+ ratings
🧠 Systems Thinking📊 Environmental Economics🌍 Planetary Boundaries
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J.B. MacKinnon • 2021
Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.
4.13
5k+
🧃 Consumer Culture📉 Environmental Economics🛒 Overconsumption
The Day the World Stops Shopping Summary
The Day the World Stops Shopping 88%
Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.
by J.B. MacKinnon 2021
4.13
5k+ ratings
🧃 Consumer Culture📉 Environmental Economics🛒 Overconsumption
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