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☠️ Sixth Extinction

A sobering reckoning with the current mass die-off of species, examining how human activity is driving biodiversity loss at a pace not seen since the dinosaurs vanished.
The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson • 2002
Extinction runs 1,000 times too fast. The bottleneck is not knowledge but a global land ethic.
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3k+
🦠 Biodiversity Crisis🌿 Conservation Biology🦏 Species Extinction
The Future of Life Summary
The Future of Life 92%
Extinction runs 1,000 times too fast. The bottleneck is not knowledge but a global land ethic.
by Edward O. Wilson 2002
4.14
3k+ ratings
🦠 Biodiversity Crisis🌿 Conservation Biology🦏 Species Extinction
The Next Species
by Michael Tennesen • 2015
Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.
3.71
310
🦴 Mass Extinctions🌍 Anthropocene🦜 Biodiversity Loss
The Next Species Summary
The Next Species 91%
Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.
by Michael Tennesen 2015
3.71
310 ratings
🦴 Mass Extinctions🌍 Anthropocene🦜 Biodiversity Loss
The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert • 2014
The planet's fifth mass extinction killed the dinosaurs. We are the cause of the sixth.
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🦴 Mass Extinction🌿 Biodiversity Loss📜 Environmental History
The Sixth Extinction Summary
The Sixth Extinction 91%
The planet's fifth mass extinction killed the dinosaurs. We are the cause of the sixth.
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014
4.15
80k+ ratings
🦴 Mass Extinction🌿 Biodiversity Loss📜 Environmental History
The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson • 1992
Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.
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6k+
🧬 Biodiversity Science🌿 Conservation Biology💀 Mass Extinction
The Diversity of Life Summary
The Diversity of Life 90%
Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.
by Edward O. Wilson 1992
4.22
6k+ ratings
🧬 Biodiversity Science🌿 Conservation Biology💀 Mass Extinction
Earth in Human Hands
by David Grinspoon • 2016
If most civilizations burn out within a thousand years, why would we be the exception?
4.19
311
🏭 Anthropocene Studies🪐 Planetary Science⏳ Civilizational Longevity
Earth in Human Hands Summary
Earth in Human Hands 90%
If most civilizations burn out within a thousand years, why would we be the exception?
by David Grinspoon 2016
4.19
311 ratings
🏭 Anthropocene Studies🪐 Planetary Science⏳ Civilizational Longevity
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
Under a White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert • 2021
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
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🏭 Anthropocene Studies📰 Science Journalism🌿 Ecological Intervention
Under a White Sky Summary
Under a White Sky 90%
Every environmental solution spawns a new problem. The next ones alter genes and block the sun.
by Elizabeth Kolbert 2021
4.10
13k+ ratings
🏭 Anthropocene Studies📰 Science Journalism🌿 Ecological Intervention
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman • 2007
What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.
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🕰️ Deep Time🌿 Rewilding🧴 Plastic Pollution
The World Without Us Summary
The World Without Us 90%
What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.
by Alan Weisman 2007
3.81
44k+ ratings
🕰️ Deep Time🌿 Rewilding🧴 Plastic Pollution
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
by Henry Gee • 2025
The human population will soon peak and shrink. The only way out of extinction leads through space.
3.65
470
🦴 Human Evolution📉 Demographic Decline🧬 Genetic Bottlenecks
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire Summary
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire 89%
The human population will soon peak and shrink. The only way out of extinction leads through space.
by Henry Gee 2025
3.65
470 ratings
🦴 Human Evolution📉 Demographic Decline🧬 Genetic Bottlenecks
A Brief History of Earth
by Andrew H. Knoll • 2021
Earth's four-billion-year story: how rock spawned life, and why that knowledge now falls to us.
3.94
5k+
🌍 Earth History🧬 Origin Of Life🔀 Plate Tectonics
A Brief History of Earth Summary
A Brief History of Earth 89%
Earth's four-billion-year story: how rock spawned life, and why that knowledge now falls to us.
by Andrew H. Knoll 2021
3.94
5k+ ratings
🌍 Earth History🧬 Origin Of Life🔀 Plate Tectonics
A Life on Our Planet
by David Attenborough • 2020
Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.
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35k+
🍃 Environmental Memoir🦜 Biodiversity Loss🌍 Planetary Boundaries
A Life on Our Planet Summary
A Life on Our Planet 89%
Half of all wild animals vanished in one lifetime. The way back requires more than cutting carbon.
by David Attenborough 2020
4.50
35k+ ratings
🍃 Environmental Memoir🦜 Biodiversity Loss🌍 Planetary Boundaries
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
by Steve Brusatte • 2018
Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.
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42k+
🦴 Paleontology🧬 Evolutionary Biology☄️ Mass Extinctions
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 89%
Dinosaurs were underdogs for 30 million years. Then two mass extinctions handed them the planet.
by Steve Brusatte 2018
4.21
42k+ ratings
🦴 Paleontology🧬 Evolutionary Biology☄️ Mass Extinctions
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben • 1989
Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.
3.94
3k+
🌍 Anthropocene Philosophy🌿 Deep Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics
The End of Nature Summary
The End of Nature 89%
Nature once stood apart from human affairs. We altered the atmosphere, and that separation fell.
by Bill McKibben 1989
3.94
3k+ ratings
🌍 Anthropocene Philosophy🌿 Deep Ecology⚖️ Environmental Ethics
After Lockdown
by Bruno Latour • 2021
The lockdown ended. The fantasy of escaping Earth should end too.
3.50
311
🌍 Political Ecology🚧 Planetary Boundaries🧬 Posthumanism
After Lockdown Summary
After Lockdown 89%
The lockdown ended. The fantasy of escaping Earth should end too.
by Bruno Latour 2021
3.50
311 ratings
🌍 Political Ecology🚧 Planetary Boundaries🧬 Posthumanism
The Rescue Effect
by Michael Mehta Webster • 2022
Species have hidden backup systems that kick in under stress. The best conservation helps them work.
3.94
52
🔬 Conservation Biology🌱 Ecological Restoration🌡️ Climate Adaptation
The Rescue Effect Summary
The Rescue Effect 89%
Species have hidden backup systems that kick in under stress. The best conservation helps them work.
by Michael Mehta Webster 2022
3.94
52 ratings
🔬 Conservation Biology🌱 Ecological Restoration🌡️ Climate Adaptation
The Uninhabitable Earth
by David Wallace-Wells • 2019
Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.
3.99
30k+
🧪 Climate Science⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios🏃 Climate Migration
The Uninhabitable Earth Summary
The Uninhabitable Earth 89%
Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.
by David Wallace-Wells 2019
3.99
30k+ ratings
🧪 Climate Science⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios🏃 Climate Migration
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 89%
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
Pale Blue Dot
by Carl Sagan • 1994
On a single pixel: everyone who ever lived. The scientific case that makes space our only insurance.
4.34
40k+
🔭 Planetary Science🚀 Space Exploration🌌 Cosmic Perspective
Pale Blue Dot Summary
Pale Blue Dot 89%
On a single pixel: everyone who ever lived. The scientific case that makes space our only insurance.
by Carl Sagan 1994
4.34
40k+ ratings
🔭 Planetary Science🚀 Space Exploration🌌 Cosmic Perspective
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 89%
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
Dinosaurs
by David E. Fastovsky • 2009
The textbook that treats dinosaurs as animals, not monsters, and follows them into the sky.
4.21
193
🦕 Paleontology🦴 Fossil Record🦖 Dinosaur Biology
Dinosaurs Summary
Dinosaurs 89%
The textbook that treats dinosaurs as animals, not monsters, and follows them into the sky.
by David E. Fastovsky 2009
4.21
193 ratings
🦕 Paleontology🦴 Fossil Record🦖 Dinosaur Biology
Timefulness
by Marcia Bjornerud • 2018
The climate crisis has a hidden dimension: time. Why the billion-year view matters now.
4.07
2k+
⏳ Deep Time🌍 Earth History🔭 Long-Term Thinking
Timefulness Summary
Timefulness 89%
The climate crisis has a hidden dimension: time. Why the billion-year view matters now.
by Marcia Bjornerud 2018
4.07
2k+ ratings
⏳ Deep Time🌍 Earth History🔭 Long-Term Thinking
Now or Never
by Tim Flannery • 2009
Climate change is outrunning every worst-case model. The solutions work; the timeline doesn't.
3.49
193
🌍 Planetary Boundaries🌎 Gaia Theory🏭 Anthropocene
Now or Never Summary
Now or Never 89%
Climate change is outrunning every worst-case model. The solutions work; the timeline doesn't.
by Tim Flannery 2009
3.49
193 ratings
🌍 Planetary Boundaries🌎 Gaia Theory🏭 Anthropocene
Evolution
by Carl Zimmer • 2001
One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.
4.11
5k+
🧬 Evolutionary Biology🎯 Natural Selection🦴 Paleontology
Evolution Summary
Evolution 89%
One idea explains elaborate plumage, the fossil record, and why antibiotics stop working: evolution.
by Carl Zimmer 2001
4.11
5k+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Biology🎯 Natural Selection🦴 Paleontology
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 89%
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
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
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe
by Marcelo Gleiser • 2023
Life is a near-miracle, and our minds are the universe's only way to mean.
3.91
189
🔭 Cosmic Perspective🧬 Origin Of Life🌍 Planetary Stewardship
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe Summary
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe 88%
Life is a near-miracle, and our minds are the universe's only way to mean.
by Marcelo Gleiser 2023
3.91
189 ratings
🔭 Cosmic Perspective🧬 Origin Of Life🌍 Planetary Stewardship
Dónde aterrizar. Cómo orientarse en política
by Bruno Latour • 2017
Climate, inequality, and nationalism share one cause: the Earth has become a political actor.
3.74
2k+
🌍 Political Ecology🌡️ Climate Politics🧠 Continental Philosophy
Dónde aterrizar. Cómo orientarse en política Summary
Dónde aterrizar. Cómo orientarse en política 88%
Climate, inequality, and nationalism share one cause: the Earth has become a political actor.
by Bruno Latour 2017
3.74
2k+ ratings
🌍 Political Ecology🌡️ Climate Politics🧠 Continental Philosophy
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 88%
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
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 88%
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
Ubiquity
by Mark Buchanan • 2000
One grain of sand explains why markets crash, species vanish, and empires fall.
3.90
716
🧬 Complexity Science🔗 Systems Theory📊 Power Laws
Ubiquity Summary
Ubiquity 88%
One grain of sand explains why markets crash, species vanish, and empires fall.
by Mark Buchanan 2000
3.90
716 ratings
🧬 Complexity Science🔗 Systems Theory📊 Power Laws
Vanishing Treasures
by Katherine Rundell • 2024
Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.
4.15
5k+
🦏 Endangered Species📖 Natural History🧠 Animal Intelligence
Vanishing Treasures Summary
Vanishing Treasures 88%
Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.
by Katherine Rundell 2024
4.15
5k+ ratings
🦏 Endangered Species📖 Natural History🧠 Animal Intelligence
The Universe Within
by Neil Shubin • 2013
Your body is a clock tuned to Earth's rotation and a museum of cosmic history.
3.88
3k+
🏛️ Big History⏳ Deep Time✨ Cosmic Origins
The Universe Within Summary
The Universe Within 88%
Your body is a clock tuned to Earth's rotation and a museum of cosmic history.
by Neil Shubin 2013
3.88
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Big History⏳ Deep Time✨ Cosmic Origins
Staying with the Trouble
by Donna J. Haraway • 2016
There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.
4.04
3k+
🐙 Multispecies Kinship🌿 Ecological Entanglement♀️ Feminist Theory
Staying with the Trouble Summary
Staying with the Trouble 88%
There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.
by Donna J. Haraway 2016
4.04
3k+ ratings
🐙 Multispecies Kinship🌿 Ecological Entanglement♀️ Feminist Theory
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
by Stephen Webb • 2002
Fifty answers to Fermi's paradox: we're alone, we're doomed, or we're in a galactic zoo.
4.20
1k+
🌌 Extraterrestrial Life🔬 Astrobiology🤔 Fermi Paradox
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Summary
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? 88%
Fifty answers to Fermi's paradox: we're alone, we're doomed, or we're in a galactic zoo.
by Stephen Webb 2002
4.20
1k+ ratings
🌌 Extraterrestrial Life🔬 Astrobiology🤔 Fermi Paradox
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
Marine Biology
by Philip V. Mladenov • 2013
71% of the planet is salt water; it provides half our oxygen, and its life support is failing.
4.21
462
🐟 Marine Biology🌊 Ocean Ecosystems🛡️ Marine Conservation
Marine Biology Summary
Marine Biology 88%
71% of the planet is salt water; it provides half our oxygen, and its life support is failing.
by Philip V. Mladenov 2013
4.21
462 ratings
🐟 Marine Biology🌊 Ocean Ecosystems🛡️ Marine Conservation
Nomad Century
by Gaia Vince • 2022
The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.
3.84
1k+
🌍 Climate Migration🏠 Managed Retreat🚧 Border Politics
Nomad Century Summary
Nomad Century 88%
The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.
by Gaia Vince 2022
3.84
1k+ ratings
🌍 Climate Migration🏠 Managed Retreat🚧 Border Politics
The Great Derangement
by Amitav Ghosh • 2016
Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.
4.04
6k+
🏛️ Climate Politics📚 Environmental Humanities🌏 Postcolonial Critique
The Great Derangement Summary
The Great Derangement 88%
Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.
by Amitav Ghosh 2016
4.04
6k+ ratings
🏛️ Climate Politics📚 Environmental Humanities🌏 Postcolonial Critique
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 Legacy
by David Suzuki • 2010
GDP counts car crashes as growth. An elder's vision for measuring what actually sustains us.
4.21
492
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🌱 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📉 Post-Growth Economics
The Legacy Summary
The Legacy 88%
GDP counts car crashes as growth. An elder's vision for measuring what actually sustains us.
by David Suzuki 2010
4.21
492 ratings
🌍 Environmental Philosophy🌱 Traditional Ecological Knowledge📉 Post-Growth Economics
The Ancestor's Tale
by Richard Dawkins • 2004
Evolution traced backward, from human to the first cell: a pilgrimage through shared ancestry.
4.15
29k+
🧬 Evolutionary Biology⏳ Deep Time🔄 Convergent Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale Summary
The Ancestor's Tale 88%
Evolution traced backward, from human to the first cell: a pilgrimage through shared ancestry.
by Richard Dawkins 2004
4.15
29k+ ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Biology⏳ Deep Time🔄 Convergent Evolution
The Web of Meaning
by Jeremy Lent • 2021
Separation is a myth. Science is catching up to what ancient traditions have always taught.
4.26
568
🌍 Deep Ecology🔗 Systems Thinking🌿 Indigenous Wisdom
The Web of Meaning Summary
The Web of Meaning 88%
Separation is a myth. Science is catching up to what ancient traditions have always taught.
by Jeremy Lent 2021
4.26
568 ratings
🌍 Deep Ecology🔗 Systems Thinking🌿 Indigenous Wisdom
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
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
by Henry Gee • 2021
4.6 billion years in twelve chapters. Every dynasty crumbles. The book's last page is about us.
4.05
3k+
🕰️ Deep Time🌍 Natural History📜 Big History
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Summary
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth 88%
4.6 billion years in twelve chapters. Every dynasty crumbles. The book's last page is about us.
by Henry Gee 2021
4.05
3k+ ratings
🕰️ Deep Time🌍 Natural History📜 Big History
Active Hope
by Joanna Macy • 2012
Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.
4.10
2k+
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌍 Climate Grief🌿 Ecospirituality
Active Hope Summary
Active Hope 88%
Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.
by Joanna Macy 2012
4.10
2k+ ratings
🏔️ Deep Ecology🌍 Climate Grief🌿 Ecospirituality
Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams • 1990
A flightless parrot, a blind dolphin, and the last-chance quest to see them before they vanish.
4.32
26k+
🤣 Comic Travelogues🦏 Endangered Species🐆 Wildlife Conservation
Last Chance to See Summary
Last Chance to See 88%
A flightless parrot, a blind dolphin, and the last-chance quest to see them before they vanish.
by Douglas Adams 1990
4.32
26k+ ratings
🤣 Comic Travelogues🦏 Endangered Species🐆 Wildlife Conservation
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 88%
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
The Precipice
by Toby Ord • 2020
The next hundred years will decide if humanity colonizes the galaxy or destroys itself trying.
3.94
5k+
🧨 Existential Risk⏳ Longtermism🤖 Ai Safety
The Precipice Summary
The Precipice 88%
The next hundred years will decide if humanity colonizes the galaxy or destroys itself trying.
by Toby Ord 2020
3.94
5k+ ratings
🧨 Existential Risk⏳ Longtermism🤖 Ai Safety
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
by Edward Dolnick • 2024
Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.
3.74
3k+
🎩 Victorian Science📜 History Of Science⛏️ Fossil Hunting
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party Summary
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party 88%
Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.
by Edward Dolnick 2024
3.74
3k+ ratings
🎩 Victorian Science📜 History Of Science⛏️ Fossil Hunting
Anti-Tech Revolution
by Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
3.95
630
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
Anti-Tech Revolution Summary
Anti-Tech Revolution 88%
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016
3.95
630 ratings
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
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